on international trade flows in the period 1992 - 2011, including interstate and internal conflicts as well as other … challenging the foundation of the absence of great power war. Additionally, the number of internal conflicts is surging. At the … same time, globalisation has spun a net of global trade connections and has thus created dependencies, making everyone more …

trade for a panel of 37 developed and emerging economies during the period 1995-2011. We find significant and non …-linear effects of overall infrastructure and infrastructure in transportation, communication, energy, and finance on trade in … trade after accounting for potential reverse causality. …

of geoeconomic policy tools such as sanctions and embargoes. Second, the geopolitics of international trade, especially … economy, e.g. on investments, credit, and inflation. Fifth, the economics of war, in particular research on trade and war and …

firm will export or import. Foreign ownership has a large positive impact on the likelihood to engage in direct trade but a … negative effect on the likelihood to trade through intermediaries; the effects vary across upper and lower middle income …

The analysis of Baltic regional trade patterns reveals that during the nineties the Baltic states made significant … progress to integrate into the Western European division of labour although a significant share of (transit) trade with Russia … occupation. In addition, a trade entropy analysis and gravity model estimates show that European integration of the Baltic states …

The Eastern enlargement of the European Union (EU) is likely to give a further boost to trade and capital flows, yet … determinants of international asset holdings and trade flows. We find in most regressions that EU membership has a significant … candidates actual values are still far below expected ones in most cases. Consequently, we anticipate rising capital and trade …

Bilateral trade balances often play an important role inthe international trade policy debate. Disturbingly, several … studies argue that the gravity model of trade fails when confronted with bilateral trade balances data, dubbing this "The … Mystery of the Excess Trade Balances". Capitalizing on developments in the related literature, we solve the mystery and show …

International trade is highly imbalanced both in terms of values and in terms of embodied carbon emissions. We show … that the persistent current value trade imbalance patterns contribute to a higher level of global emissions compared to a … world of balanced international trade. Specifically, we build a Ricardian quantitative trade model including sectoral input …