The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of the quality of the Romanian governance process on the trade with EU … improvement of the Romanian institutions would unleash the trade between Romania and the other EU countries. …

(VSSs) become quasi-mandatory for cocoa producers and grinders to ensure accessto these markets. Yet, their trade effects are … trade and analyse the effect of the shareof UTZ Certified cocoa production quantity in a country on the trade value of …

misinvoicing of international trade transactions. This study develops a novel methodology based on the gravity model of … international trade to estimate illicit financial flows using publicly available product-level international trade data. It …, without resorting to assumptions about trade statistics reliability. Application of the methodology is illustrated using six …

surveys, on complaints by trading partners at the World Trade Organization (WTO) or notifications by companies or countries …Many different approaches have developed for the evaluation of non-tariff measures (NTMs) and free trade agreements … ability to predict the trade effects of the EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement, the first 'second-generation' FTA of the EU …

We propose a novel application of a gravity model of trade as a policy preference mapping tool that reveals areas of …

An empirical measure of trade openness is defined as the ratio of total trade to GDP, and represents a convenient … study examines the informational content of the trade openness measure using intranational and international data. We find … that, even for fully integrated economies within a country, trade openness is approximately half as variable as it is for …

We show that traditional gravity variables play a significant role in explaining trade flows related to global value … relevant for trade that reflects cross-border production sharing. Applying an augmented gravity model framework to a newly …-constructed dataset we find a positive association between bilateral FDI stock and both gross bilateral trade and the bilateral import …

This paper is the first in the literature to examine the impact of natural disasters on trade in services. We measure … trade in services using a structural gravity model. We find that, overall, natural disasters lead to a decline of services … reduce services exports by 2% to 3%. Capital-intensive service sectors such as transport and communications are most affected …

In the age of globalisation, international trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) have become integral elements of … structure, on the formation of global value chains (GVC) and trade in value added at country and sectoral levels based on a …, ICT capital appears to be especially instrumental for backward integration of electrical and transportation equipment …