This paper documents the construction of BACI, our international trade database, which covers more than 200 countries … do this, firstly, as import values are reported CIF (cost, insurance and freight) while exports are reported FOB (free on … analysis. These measures of the reliability of reported data are used as weights in the reconciliation of each bilateral trade …

upgrading of the EU15 imports from its emerging neighbours. The EU15 trade with emerging markets in Asia have strengthened the … exports to the emerging and rentier countries located in Europe & Periphery. Regional integration has also favoured the …

We study the impact of transnational terrorism diffusion on security and trade. We set a simple theoretical model … predicting that the closer a country to a source of terrorism, the higher the negative spillovers on its trade. The idea is that … security measures, which impede trade, are directed both against the source country of terror and its neighbor countries where …

We show that the negative impact of financial crises on trade is magnified for destinations with longer time-to-ship. A …

estimation, we disentangle the treatment effect of one PTA on members’ trade and real income, from the externalities created by … income from signing PTAs, even in the cases where trade creation is small; while non-members are negatively impacted. Thus …This paper studies the implications of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) proliferation. Using counterfactual …