The relationship between geography and trade is a central topic in international economics. This paper investigates the … potential existence of a continental bias in world trade flows on a sample of 182 countries over the period 1990-2006. Using … evidence of an economically significant continental bias in trade. It implies that, other things equal, countries located on …

international trade, we propose in this paper to assess the impact of Algerian immigration networks on Algerian exports. It is clear … and Morocco. Its role in the international trade of Algeria has never been object of evaluation study. In line with the … recent literature developed since the 1990s, through the work of Gould (1994), on the relationship between immigration and …

. This puzzle simply says that "the world is not getting smaller": distance still matters to account for trade. This is … reflected in a decreasing distance of trade (DOT), or in a stable or increasing (negative) elasticity of trade with respect to … creates an incentive to trade higher quality goods. Our paper proposes a new theoretical explanation of this puzzle. This …

We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade on interregional inequality within countries. While … inequality depends on weighted trade shares and trade costs and where we can derive an aggregate freeness of trade measure. These … measures are instrumented based on constructed trade shares and trade costs fitted from a gravity panel model of bilateral …