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 …

In the trade-technology-wage debate, the effects of the various forms of technical progress on relative factor prices …, which allows for any discrete number of sectors and countries integrated via trade flows. Technologies are country- and …

of trade and financial openness. Using a large crosssection of 91 countries covering the period 1985-2004, we establish … two main empirical regularities. Both higher trade and financial openness i) reduce central bank?s inflation bias …

This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the impact of trade on income. First, we use heterogeneous … trade on income for 81 developed and developing countries, both for the sample as a whole and for each individual country …. Second, we use a general-to-specific variable selection approach to identify important determinants of the effect of trade on …

track all changes in the trade structure and competitiveness over time. The long-term trend of the indicators suggests that … the Austrian foreign trade sector was able to maintain its market share in the global environment. While the Austrian … foreign trade performance only slightly deviates from the pattern of the traditional industrialised countries, a strong …

to describe the underlying forces linking trade with factor prices. I argue that missing regional and related inter …-sectoral labor mobility might be a potential factor preventing employees from taking advantage of trade liberalization. To …

This paper examines whether European integration, manifesting itself in increased trade and FDI linkages, new … model endogenous relationships and unveil direct and indirect effects. Trade and FDI prove to have a strong impact on …

We investigate the impact of the emergence of China as a global competitor on the trade performance of Central, Eastern … trade links, applying highly disaggregated data at the 6 digit HS level over the period 1995 - 2010. We show that the most … shares and comparative advantage. We show that the number of trade links at the product level where both regions are active …

The establishment of the currently negotiated Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between EU and Ukraine is the next significant … developing countries face some costs associated with trade liberalization, this paper contributes to the literature by analyzing … trade liberalization, as the results vary significantly across the scenarios. In general, we find that tariff elimination …

trade and FDI are found to have significant impact on the upsurge of labour productivity growth in BRICS, where the …