Are regional trade agreements (RTAs) carefully crafted projects that systematically advance their member states’ interests or do they instead generate outcomes that frustrate those interests? Works on the most prominent RTA - the European Union - have traditionally been split over this...

We analyze how an aspect of institutional change — regional integration in the form of regional trade agreements (RTAs) — affects the degree of global orientation (DGO) of emerging market (EM) multinational enterprises (MNEs). We decompose regional integration into three key dimensions...

Nationalstaaten verändern ihre Größe - dies lehrt die Geschichte. Gleichwohl wird die Größe eines Landes in der Ökonomik meist als exogen angenommen und nicht erklärt. Dies überrascht, weil die Staatsgröße in gewissem Umfang als Ergebnis rationaler Entscheidungen und als genuin...

Although the extant literature on agricultural trade analyzes the effects of various factors on agricultural trade, only a limited number of studies focus on the role of institutional quality and institutional quality distance on agricultural trade particularly between developing countries...