Was the collapse of world trade between 1928 and 1937 caused by higher transport costs, increased protectionism or the … equilibrium effects of bilateral distance, international borders, and the payment system on trade. My results suggest that had … average tari and non-tari trade barriers remained at their 1928 level, total international trade would have been 64.6 % higher …

can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher …

In this paper we investigate whether the effects of terrorism in one country spillover to affect trade in neighboring … nation's contiguous neighbors significantly reduce bilateral trade. Each additional terrorist attack in a neighboring country … reduces bilateral trade by nearly 0.013% on average, which translates into a reduction of about $6.4 million USD in total …

1930s. We argue that the culprit behind this Great Depression was the collapse of Finnish trade with the Soviet Union … of Soviet-Finnish trade can explain key features of Finland's Great Depression. We also show that Finland's Great … similar trade collapse. However, as a western democracy with developed capital markets and institutions, Finland faced none of …

We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" - China and Eastern Europe …-regional variation in initial industry structures and use trade flows of other high-income countries as instruments for regional import … trade integration has caused some 493,000 additional jobs in the economy and contributed to retaining the manufacturing …

Within the migration-trade nexus literature, this paper proposes a more carefully defined measure of migration business … networks, and quantifies its impact on bilateral trade. Using cross-sectional data and controlling for the overall bilateral … on trade, and especially on exports. Those immigrants should be the ones directly involved in the diffusion and …