-justified gravity model of trade augmented with political factors is estimated using a two-stage panel-data approach for 104 exporting …

Stockholm Convention, SC) in reducing trade in hazardous substances. We estimate the effects of ratification of these agreements … about 7 percent. In the case of the SC, the results show significant reductions in trade shipments from OECD to non …

The objective of this paper is twofold. First, it examines the effects of the implementation of trade facilitation (TF …) measures on international trade flows and on participation in global value chains (GVCs). Second, it provides policy … trade flows. The data used are from the UN Global Surveys on Digital and Sustainable Trade Facilitation, covering 144 …

divergent trade patterns for different economies. We provide evidence that the level of development governs the relevance of …

This paper focuses on the impact of maritime piracy on international trade. Piracy increases the cost of international … maritime transport through an increase in insecurity regarding goods deliveries. Bilateral trade flows between the main … measures of piracy acts. We found robust evidence indicating that maritime piracy reduces the volume of trade; the effect of …

This report aims to test whether the inclusion of environmental provisions in Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) has …

This is the first paper that analyzes for a global sample how trade agreements that include technology … property rights. It also estimates the differences in these effects depending on whether the trade flow in question is between … countries with similar or different levels of development. The main results indicate that regional trade agreements (RTAs) that …

This is the first paper that analyzes for a global sample how trade agreements that include technology … property rights. It also estimates the differences in these effects depending on whether the trade flow in question is between … countries with similar or different levels of development. The main results indicate that regional trade agreements (RTAs) that …

The Doha declaration on trade and environment proposed to clarify the relationship between multilateral environmental … agreement (MEA) trade obligations and WTO rules by only guaranteeing economic integration upon ratification of certain MEAs. In … other words, it pushed to authorize the use of trade measures against non-compliance, denying a non-signatory of its WTO …

This paper presents a theoretical gravity model of trade in which foreign aid is considered as a transfer instead of … being part of the trade cost, as it has been previously done in the related literature. We argue that the usual … the resulting trade elasticities with respect to aid are compared with those obtained from the traditional specification …