Our paper decomposes knowledge-diffusing trade flows and estimates their impacts separately. Overall, trade generates … positive knowledge spillovers, but the effects of intra-industry trade are ambiguous. With regard to sectoral import … significant positive spillover effects of intra-industry trade that corresponds to international out-sourcing. …

This paper explores official trade data to identify patterns of smuggling in international trade. Our main measure of … interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the … with the level of corruption in both partner countries. This finding supports the hypothesis that trade gaps partly …

recessions tend to lead to falling trade and protectionism. The sensitivity of trade to global economic conditions is not simply …

Netherlands and the UK. The results can be summarized as the follows: Italy always had a trade specialisation index which was well … above average. Apart from Italy, whose trade performance index decreased substantially, changes in the trade performance …