This paper investigates whether and to what extent nonreciprocal preferential trade agreements (NRPTAs) have increased developing countries' exports to richer countries. Using recent developments in the econometric analysis of the gravity equation over the period 1960–2008, we find robust...

This paper analyses the effects of monetary agreements on trade flows using a sample of 25 OECD countries over the period 1950-2004. We find that these agreements have boosted intra-bloc trade. This result especially applies to the case of the euro. More importantly, in contrast to regional...

Gil-Pareja S., Llorca-Vivero R. and Martinez-Serrano J. A. (2006) The border effect in Spain: the Basque Country case, Regional Studies 40, 335-345. This paper investigates the border effect on the Basque Country's trade, using a sample of 28 Organization for Economic Co-operation and...

This paper investigates the existence of a continental bias in world trade and the potential differences in this bias across continents and at trade margins. We find a moderate positive continental bias in trade that masks an uneven impact of continental boundaries across continents. At the...

This paper investigates the channels through which Spanish regional export promotion offices (REPOs) abroad affect bilateral exports. Using transaction data per product over the period 1995–2011, we decompose the total impact of REPOs on exports value into three margins: number of products,...