transportation infrastructure enhances international trade more than internal trade and this result is robust to various estimation … infrastructure has a non-negative effect on internal trade. Further quantitative analysis suggests 10% increase in transportation …---transportation infrastructure in a commonly used fixed effect gravity estimation. Guided by this new theoretical framework, this paper shows that …

same time, globalisation has spun a net of global trade connections and has thus created dependencies, making everyone more … vulnerable to the repercussions of conflict. In this context, this paper analyses the relationship between trade and conflict … from a trade perspective: Using data from UCDP and COMTRADE this paper studies the effects of five different conflict types …

Geoeconomic concepts are gaining importance in EU trade policy. In this context new trade policy instruments are … designed to protect the internal market against unfair trade practices, coercive actions as well as to ensure sustainable … (CBAM), Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDD), Level Playing Field Provisions in the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation …

We show that the countries of the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy trade significantly more with one another in the … aftermath of the collapse of the Iron Curtain than predicted by a standard gravity model. This trade surplus declines linearly …

movement of goods, labor and capital. Twenty five years later, CIS countries still face important trade policy choices the … implementation of which is conditional on the quality of governance and infrastructure. The evaluation of these policy choices gains … the gravity model of trade using alternative estimation approaches that account for zeros in trade: Heckman, Poisson …

Sound infrastructure is fundamental for growth across the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS). During … 1995-2005, improvements in infrastructure boosted growth in Central Africa by 1 percentage point per capita annually …

performance - affordable and efficient public infrastructure and services - remains lacking in this region - notably, in Sub …-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development … programme which is intended to fix this problem sustainably - namely, the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa …

-tariff measures, which reveals that technical barriers to trade (TBTs) played a much greater role as a trade-inhibiting factor in … other results, we find that an increase in the stringency of technical barriers to trade imposed by the host country is …

We study the relationship between ICT, total factor productivity and export at the firm level in Belgium, France and … the Netherlands. In particular, we look at whether ICT has both a direct effect on export and an indirect effect via … differences in the effects of ICT on export between the three countries. …