This paper studies the degree of integration of China's domestic market and investigates the determinants of inter-provincial trade barriers under the rubric endogenoustrade policy theory. I rely on industry-level trade flows extracted from provincial input-output tables to develop a model that...

This paper examines the extent of stability, specialisation and divergence in manufacturing industries' export patterns for EU15 countries at both industry and country level, distinguishing between intra and extra EU15 exports as well as different technological categories. Both countrywide and...

Inspired by the theory of variety-expanding product innovation we derive a testable relationship of outsourcing on the growth rate of knowledge. We estimate this relationship with a firm-level dataset, which is a unique match of PATSTAT patent data and the Amadeus dataset. We find evidence that...

This paper examines the evolution of the EU’s trade in services over the 2004-2008 period in comparison with its trade in goods. It aims to disentangle the main trends shaping the EU’s services trade flows under the impact of increasing globalisation and the last two waves of EU enlargement....

The Millennium Round of MTNs, which was stillborn in Seattle, was supposed to have initiated wide-sweeping changes to the world's trading system. This paper deals with the impact on the German economy of some changes that might have been forthcoming from proposed liberalization strategies. It...

Kosovo had been a net exporter - at least of some - fruit and vegetables in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia before the civil war. Current reconstruction efforts therefore focus on restoring the past horticultural potential of the now independent province. This paper analyses the...

The issue of the openness of the economy is becoming more important recently, especially given the development of global economy in last years and months. As openness is to be regarded as a dynamic process, flexible in both directions, problems with the visions for the openness arise with time,...

We test the hypothesis of the circular causality between trade costs and degree of economic development using data on Italian provinces. Using different methods to control for multilateral resistance, we apply a gravity equation to estimate sectoral exports to 188 countries over the period...

Duitsland is gespecialiseerd in de productie van hoogwaardige machines, apparaten en auto's; Nederland in landbouwproducten, fossiele brandstoffen en halffabricaten. Dat traditionele beeld is aan bijstelling toe. De laatste decennia is het verschil in ‘productiepakket' kleiner geworden. Dit...

French retailers have found opportunities in Romania, which meant creating formats quite different from those in France or, in the case of a diversified firm, exploiting just one format from its range. However, this strategy seems to be a short time one given that, in order to be successful in...