Based on the gravity model of international trade, this paper initially analyzes North Korea's international trade … pattern, which tends to follow the prediction of the gravity model: a positive relationship between trade and trading partners …' GDP, and negative relationship between trade and distance. This pattern has been consistently preserved over recent …

and their effects vary between the Baltic Sea Region countries. Foreign trade with the investing country is also a … statistically significant determinant for FDI, i.e. the countries that have trade with each other also invest in each other. On the …

Since the beginning of 2017, a paradigm change in international trade policy is observed. While the protectionist …

This article describes the development of international trade blocs world wide from the 1950s till 2010. We updated the … data on international trade flows and introduced a new trade bloc variable based on the intramax hierarchical clustering … technique, which defines trade blocs on actual trade intensities and not - as was preciously done - by traditional geographic …

The German trade in services continuously expands since 2001. So far unknown was the extent to which SMEs in the … service sector participate in this trade. Although only 14 % of SMEs in the service sector export, they contribute a higher …&D-results. Exporting SMEs in the economic sectors transport, trade and business services generate on average 20 % of their total annual …