This paper investigates pricing to market behaviour using data for European auto exports. The empirical analysis uses forward instead of spot exchange rates. Cross-country and cross-product analyses reveal that pricing behaviour depends mainly on the class of product, while the country of origin...

<heading id="h1" level="1" implicit="yes" format="display">Abstract</heading> This paper estimates a theoretically-motivated gravity model to examine the effect of the European Union (EU) on trade and whether the order of entry has affected the trade performance of member countries. Additionally, we analyse the impact of the different phases of EU integration on...

This article estimates the effect of Spanish regional trade agencies abroad on exports using the gravity model. The results indicate that regional agencies increase trade. The estimated impact seems to be larger than that of Spanish embassies and consulates. Moreover, a disaggregated analysis...

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 study investigates the relationship between market integration and price convergence in international markets. Using a panel data set of consumer price indices (general and by groups and classes), it examines how European market integration has affected cross-country dispersion in the...

The objective of this study is to analyse the factors determining the process of internationalisation of the Spanish agrifood industry from a long-term perspective. The paper concentrates on the empirical verification of the existence of a home market effect and on the effects on trade flows of...

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 article contributes to the literature on price convergence in Europe by investigating the existence of stochastic and deterministic convergence of car prices in the EU15 countries. We apply recently developed econometric techniques that allow for multiple structural breaks to an up-to-date...

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...