The relationships between trade facilitation, trade flows, and capacity building are complex and challenging to assess, both empirically and in implementation. This working paper measures and estimate
This table contains the applied database. The table provide trade volumes, the calculated openness indicators and control variables for all country-pairs and periods in the sample. (DTA)
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a development plan proposed by China that aims to build a new platform for international cooperation and create new drivers of shared development. South Asia is a
This paper provides a minimalist derivation of the gravity equation and uses it to identify three common errors in the literature, what we call the gold, silver and bronze medal errors. The paper prov
Breinlich, Holger, Novy, Dennis, and Santos Silva, J. M. C., (2024) “Trade, Gravity, and Aggregation.” Review of Economics and Statistics 106:5, 1418–1426.
