In this paper, we empirically assess how economic sanctions imposed by the UN and the US affect the target states’ GDP … growth. Our sample includes 68 countries and covers the period 1976–2012. We find, first, that sanctions imposed by the UN … have a statistically and economically significant influence on economic growth. On average, the imposition of UN sanctions …

paper examines their scope with a focus on contingent protection aka tit-for-tat in trade policy. By highlighting various … average more liberal trade regimes. …

This paper documents the construction of BACI, our international trade database, which covers more than 200 countries … analysis. These measures of the reliability of reported data are used as weights in the reconciliation of each bilateral trade …

literature by providing evidence on the effects of trade promotion programs on the export performance of firms within different …

participation in international trade missions and fairs. These services may have heterogeneous effects and thus contribute …. This paper aims at filling this gap in the literature. We compare the impact of different public trade promotion programs …

the literature. We assess the distributional impacts of trade promotion activities performing efficient semiparametric …

the period 2001-2006. We find that trade promotion actions favor an increase of exports along the extensive margin, in …