The results generally confirm that Czech trade is oriented towards European countries and determined primarily by key … tothe counterintuitive result that a higher corruption level in partner country should boost mutual trade. We interpret this …

quantification for the first time using highly disaggregated trade data. In this paper it is argued that size and openness of a …

Trade policy has well documented effects on trade volumes. Reaching beyond volumes, I explore the impact of European … emerging economies' recent institutional trade liberalisation on extensive (i.e., the set of imported goods) versus intensive … support new models of heterogeneous firms and trade, which predict that extensive import margin effects of a country …

We investigate the effects of human capital accumulation on trade and productivity by integrating a micro …-founded education and fertility decision of households into a model of international trade with firm heterogeneity. Our theoretical …

-level performance, via two channels simultaneously: trade and FDI. We develop a simple theoretical model showing that trade integration …

countries despite their very different levels of development. We then study how firm performance and trade policy affect pricing … more to market. More importantly, we identify significant effects of trade-policy instruments on pricing-to- market: Higher …, and suggest that trade pol- icy has deep effects on market power, the direction of which depends on the type of instrument …

Despite the fact that many modern preferential trade agreements include commitments to foreign investors in imperfectly …

Gravity equations have been used for more than 50 years to estimate ex post the partial effects of trade costs on … international trade flows, and the well-known - and traditionally presumed exogenous – “trade-cost elasticity” plays a central role … in computing general equilibrium trade-flow and welfare effects of trade-cost changes. This paper addresses theoretically …