protect EU growers of certain fruits and vegetables against international competition. We represent these trade costs in the … Africa’s exports of tomatoes to the EU from 2008 to 2013, using the gravity model of trade. Our results show that at both the … extensive and intensive margins of trade, the high stringency of EU pesticide standard prevents new entry into the EU market …

2009. We employ a theoretically justified gravity model which incorporates the extensive margin of trade and accounts for … variables. Next, we estimate the model for each trade margin (extensive and intensive) separately to evaluate the effects of … more integrated into regional production networks and this has had a positive impact in terms of increasing trade volumes …

This paper uses the gravity model of trade to investigate the link between foreign aid and exports in recipient … exchange rate appreciation, disregarding possible positive effects of aid in promoting bilateral trade relations. The empirical … dollar spent. We argue that “bilateral aid” seems to promote good bilateral trade relations, mutual trust and familiarity and …

This paper focuses on the impact of maritime piracy on international trade. Piracy increases the cost of international … maritime transport through an increase in insecurity regarding goods deliveries. Bilateral trade flows between the main … measures of piracy acts. We found robust evidence indicating that maritime piracy reduces the volume of trade; the effect of …

According to recently developed models of trade with imperfect competition and heterogeneous firms, lower trade costs … increase bilateral trade not only through a rise in the mean value of individual shipments (the intensive margin of trade), but … also through an increase in the number of exporting firms (the extensive margin of trade). The main aim of this paper is to …

This paper examines the effect of the two most recent European Union enlargements on CEECs trade of intermediate and … final products separately. A theoretically justified gravity model which incorporates the extensive margin of trade and … accounts for firm heterogeneity is estimated using highly disaggregated trade data for the period 1999 to 2009. We hypothesize …

This paper uses the gravity model of trade to investigate the link between foreign aid and exports in recipient … bilateral trade relations. Our empirical findings -all based on endogeneity-proof techniques (such as Dynamic OLS or more … refined techniques) - depend very strongly on whether bilateral trade relations and autocorrelation of the disturbances are …

hypothesis is that the Euro-Mediterranean Process should promote not only trade but also stronger links between the European … exports, which could also intensify the aid-trade relationship. In particular, we expect to find higher trade volumes in both … directions after the process started in 1995 and intensified in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when several bilateral free trade …