Empirical work on the underlying causes of the recent dislocations in bank-intermediated trade finance has been limited by the scant availability of hard data. This paper aims to analyse the key determinants of bank-intermediated trade finance using a novel dataset covering ten banking...

Using data from a survey conducted by the World Bank in China, this paper shows that foreign ownership enhances firm productivity. We also find that only equity ownership from foreign firms can have such a positive impact, but not ownership from foreign institutional investors, banks, or...

International trade patterns at the product level are surprisingly dynamic. The majority of trade relationships exist for just a few, often only one to three, years. In this paper, I examine empirically the duration in German import trade at the 8-digit product level from 1995 to 2005. I find...

Spanish Abstract: Durante el período 2006-2013 Colombia experimentó una de las apreciaciones reales más fuertes del mundo. Durante este mismo período, el volumen de exportaciones manufactureras disminuyó cerca de un 50%, mientras el volumen de importaciones aumentó cerca de la misma...

During the last years, Spanish goods exports have increased significantly against a background of widening of the Spanish firms exporting base. This change has been led by SMEs, although there is still a high concentration of international sales in a small fraction of large and stable exporters....

Turkish Abstract: Dış borçların ekonomik büyümeye olan etkisi bu çalışmada Türkiye ekonomisi için 1970 ile 2014 yılları arasında Bayer-Hanck (2013) eşbütünleşme testi vasıtasıyla araştırılmaktadır. Çalışmada ayrıca dış borçların ekonomik büyümeye olan...

We explore how public investment in commercial infrastructure affects the composition of trade between countries. To this end, we develop a model of bilateral trade in which two countries produce, consume, and trade a continuum of goods. Goods are produced by a single homogeneous factor, labor,...

Qatar became a contracting party to GATT 1994 at the end of the Uruguay Round pursuant to the procedures of Article XXVI:5(c), prior to which it applied the GATT on a de facto basis. Qatar confirmed its commitments on goods and services as part of the Uruguay Round, in which it bound all tariffs...