Die Studie befasst sich mit den Auswirkungen der Russland-Sanktionen auf den Außenhandel und die Wertschöpfung Deutschlands, Russlands und der Europäischen Union (EU). Neben einer deskriptiven Analyse werden mithilfe ökonometrischer Methoden die Effekte der verschiedenen Sanktionsregime...

The current COVID-19 crisis has shown the importance of supply chain diversification to mitigate the negative effect of unexpected supply shocks. The decision of the United Kingdom to leave the European Union poses additional challenges to foreign trade: Irrespective of the outcome of the Brexit...

The WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) has been predicted to bring about an expansion in trade flows and real income gains. To date, there is still very limited empirical evidence on the actual post-implementation impact of the TFA. This paper provides an assessment, combining econometric...

Russia's foreign trade has shifted, causing a 30% depreciation in the Rouble due to declining oil prices and EU embargoes on Russian oil. While exports have decreased by 32%, imports have increased by 17% due to innovative ways to bypass trade sanctions. Despite EU restrictions, only around...

Modern regional trade agreements focus on promoting bilateral exchange mostly by lowering non-tariff barriers to trade. But do existing regional trade agreements actually deliver what they promise? This paper argues that existing results in the literature are upward biased because of measurement...

Modern regional trade agreements focus on promoting bilateral exchange mostly by lowering non-tariff barriers to trade. But do existing regional trade agreements actually deliver what they promise This paper argues that existing results in the literature are upward biased because of measurement...

When, about twenty years ago, the Euro was created, one objective was to facilitate intra‐European trade by reducing transaction costs. Has the Euro delivered? Using sectoral trade data from 1995 to 2014 and applying structural gravity modeling, we conduct an ex post evaluation of the European...

Die jüngste Abwertung der chinesischen Währung als Folge des andauernden Handelsstreits mit den USA hat auch Auswirkungen auf Europa. Dieser Beitrag untersucht unter Annahme einer Normalreaktion der chinesischen Leistungsbilanz die Handelseffekte einer 10%igen und 20%igen Yuan-Abwertung im...