analysis of the geography of trade relations (i.e. the size, the composition and the direction of exports and imports flows …) between the EU and the ENP countries. The findings of the paper illustrate the emerging patterns of trade relations among the …

present, however, notwithstanding recent enlargements, the intra-EU trade share on total EU exchanges is declining while the … interconnections between EU and Russia which have led to envisage the creation of a Common Economic Space or even of a free trade zone … trade links between EU, Russia and the other transition economies, offering a background for the debate on the reshaping of …

I investigate the effect of changing language skills on trade using an unique panel data set on spoken language. It … countries have witnessed an advancing trade integration and large changes in foreign language knowledge. I estimate a … significant and positive effect of changing common English skills on trade using the gravity model and controlling for endogeneity …

Over the last decades there has been a sizeable increase in trade and financial openness, triggered by current and … either directly the evolution of trade costs over time or the sensitivity of trade flows to distance in gravity models. In … their survey of the empirical trade literature, Leamer and Levinsohn (1995) conclude that the effect of distance on trade …

from UPS and by applying instrument variable estimation techniques. Our results reveal that distance affects trade beyond …

Why are trade agreements regional? I address this question in a model of oligopoly featuring product variety. Tariffs … have the effect of manipulating a country's terms of trade and shifting profits towards the domestic market at the expense … of foreign trade partners. Countries endogenously form into regional trade agreements or global free trade in a framework …

externalities in the presence of a preferential trade agreement (PTA) in a three-country world. In particular, we examine how a PTA … the several forms of PTAs, we focus on free trade areas (FTAs), where each member country chooses its external tariffs … independently. We build a three-country oligopolistic trade model by incorporating the endogenous determination of standards by …