development economics: the expansion of firms' export destinations across space and time (chapter 1), the extension of structural …-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained chapters which deal with the following topics in empirical international trade and …, trade, and informal employment as illustrated by the maquiladora industry in Mexico (chapter 4), the interaction between …

one or more aspects of international trade and factor movements, including trade in goods, trade in value added …, international movement of labor and capital, and trade in risk. All chapters aim to contribute to our understanding of the economic … of the pattern of trade, factor flows, and production, as well as the role of barriers to the international exchange of …

costs of natural disasters: trade openness and income per capita (Chapter 4), and natural disasters, international … at contributing to the understanding of non-standard determinants of trade and migration: historical and cultural …