Ergebnisse mögliche Anpassungspotenziale. Neben einer Analyse von aktuellen wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten zu den Effekten von Exportförderprogrammen wird anhand der DACH-Region sowie weiteren europäischen wie außereuropäischen Ländern die Ausgestaltung verschiedener Exportförderprogramme...

More than twenty years after the beginning of negotiations, a new window of opportunity seems to have opened for the ratification of a trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur. For Mercosur, this comes at a crucial juncture in its integration process: the future of the South...

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...

This paper presents a new global tariff database covering tariffs at the six-digit product level for 197 importing countries and their trading partners for 30 years, namely 1988 to 2017. I deal simultaneously with the two major issues, missing data and misreporting, almost doubling the number of...

Nearly two years after the start of the war in Ukraine, the report gives an overview of the current state of the Russian economy, with a focus on the fiscal situation, external balances, and the effects of Western sanctions on Russia’s trade with the EU and selected third countries. Increased...

Recent high-frequency data suggest a further strengthening of growth momentum, driven by the ongoing tightness of the labour market and the muted response of credit expansion to last year’s monetary policy tightening. At the same time, the short- and medium-term fiscal outlook has brightened...