Financial development plays an important role in the structure of the trade balance and promoting economic development …. Trade literature suggests that differences in economies’ endowments of labour, land, physical capital and technology explain … the dynamics and patterns of international trade flows. More recent literature argues that it is the heterogeneity in …

This paper analyses the effect of international borders and of trade agreements at international borders on subnational … 1950 and 2017. Our results show that international borders decrease regional income per capita, while trade agreements at … international borders increase regional income per capita by about the same magnitude. The positive marginal effect of trade …

Foreign trade and foreign direct investments (FDI) are key elements for economic development and growth of both a … country and its regions. This paper focuses on foreign trade and FDI in Austrian regions (Bundesländer). Unfortunately, data … on regional trade in Austria is only available on a very limited basis. The aim of this study is to develop new …

impacts of specific trade reforms. The author presents case studies for China and Morocco. Both the macro and micro approaches …There has been much debate about how much poor people in developing countries gain from trade openness, as one aspect … considerable heterogeneity in the welfare impacts of trade openness, with both gainers and losers among the poor. The author …

This paper studies the behavior of China`s foreign trade in the 1980`s. Chinese customs data are used to construct, for … dominant effect on China`s trade and may also suggest that reforms in the managemnt system of Chinese enterprises were not … the first time, quarterly unit value and volume series that are then used to estimate foreign trade income and price …

This paper investigates the asymmetries in trade spillovers from sector-specific technology shocks in China to selected … euro area countries. We use a Ricardian-gravity trade model to estimate sectoral competitiveness in individual euro area … different specialization patterns. This raises the question of the distribution of gains and losses from external trade shocks …

-sectoral relationships and the role of foreign trade. We analyze the evolution of real value added of Agriculture, Manufacturing, Industry … foreign trade on economic development …

One of the most important factors of economic development is foreign trade, and Central Asian economies are heavily … dependent on trade.The paper discusses recent trends and patterns in the total and intraregional trade of Central Asia … (including Afghanistan) and assesses their importance and policy implications. The analysis covers both formal and informal trade …

This study focuses on the effects of similar language structures on bilateral trade between countries. While it has … been established in the literature that countries sharing the same language trade more, we believe this is just a sub …-case of a more general phenomenon that has to do with the fact that trade barriers are significantly reduced in case the …

The purpose of this paper is to examine the linkage between FDI and trade in the case of Vietnam. To investigate this … issue, firstly, we attempt to find out the causality relationship between FDI and trade of Vietnam, including exports and … imports. Secondly, we try to find out the determinants of Vietnam's bilateral trade by individually applying gravity models …