This article investigates empirically the effect of aid for trade policies and regulations on the volatility of tariffs in the recipient countries. The analysis has used an unbalanced panel dataset of 107 countries over the period from 2002 to 2015. The empirical results, based on the two-step...

Purpose - The international trade literature has established that export product diversification lowers export product revenue instability. The current analysis investigates whether this finding carries over services exports. Design/methodology/approach - The empirical analysis covers a sample...

This paper investigates the effect of countries' structural economic vulnerability (EVI) on their participation in international trade using an unbalanced panel dataset of 118 countries from 1996 to 2018 and the two-step system generalized method of moments estimator. It has revealed several...