economic activity, especially international trade. Yet nothing is known empirically about these effects in large samples. We … study the effects of war on bilateral trade for almost all countries with available data extending back to 1870. Using the … gravity model, we estimate the contemporaneous and lagged effects of wars on the trade of belligerent nations and neutrals …

’s policies on international development co-operation. We therefore analyse the links between the two countries through trade … institutional basis for international assistance acitivites, it does not cover other economic activities such as trade or investment … projects. As a result, incoherences appear, such as the approval of ODA trade credit lines that are eliminated in debt …

transformation. The standard trade theory postulates that trade openness contributes to poverty alleviation directly by changing … the trade-to-grossdomestic-product ratio to measure openness often fail to find a direct effect of openness on poverty over … effectiveness of the factor proportion channel may be due to limitations of the commonly used measure of trade openness: the trade …

We carry out an indirect inference test of two versions of a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of world trade …. One of these, the ‘classical’ model,is well-known as the Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model of world trade, in which … countries trade homogeneous products in world markets and produce according to their comparative advantage as determined by …

We investigate the effects of US-imposed trade sanctions on the global trade patterns of sanctioned countries by … partial and complete US sanctions lead to significant reductions in bilateral trade between the US and target countries as … well as between target and third countries. A unit increase in the intensity of complete trade sanctions in place reduces …

This paper studies the intangible costs of international trade by extending the basic gravity equation with measures of … cultural and institutional distance, and institutional quality. Analyzing a sample of bilateral trade flows between 92 … countries in 1999, we find that institutional distance has a negative effect on bilateral trade, presumably because the …

This paper presents a framework for estimating and simulating a quantitative spatial model of trade and violence. In … predictions of the model and uncover new facts related to spatial frictions and conflicts. Finally, the model is simulated to …

revenues from energy exports, the GDP growth is clearly slowing down. The economies of the transition countries in Central and … pronounced deceleration of GDP growth is forecast only for Poland and Russia, in both cases largely for domestic economic policy …

revenues from energy exports, the GDP growth is clearly slowing down. The economies of the transition countries in Central and … pronounced deceleration of GDP growth is forecast only for Poland and Russia, in both cases largely for domestic economic policy …