Whereas various drivers of the international innovative activity have been studied in the literature, our understanding of the contributions...

This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the direct and spillover...

Recent empirical research on efficiency gains for Russia from WTO membership concludes that service trade liberalization especially through...

Russia's foreign debt problems worsened substantially after the financial crisis of 1998. The paper focuses on the key role of the government...

The paper reviews the recent conduct of monetary policy and the central bank's rule-based behavior in Russia. Using different policy rules, we...

The latest Renewable Energy Directive (RED II) by the European Union (EU) provides an updated framework for the use of renewable energy in the...

This paper proposes a simple framework to model contextual influences on procedural decision making. In terms of utility, we differentiate...

Bilateral trade balances often play an important role in the international trade policy debate. Academic economists understand that they are...

The extensive margin of bilateral trade exhibits a high level of persistence that cannot be explained by geography or trade policy. We...

Whereas technical standards and Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs) are omnipresent and essential to mass production and mass...

We investigate the export-enhancing effect of foreign workers at the firm level. We first develop a theoretical framework of heterogeneous...

We analyze the dynamics of the Japanese board network from 2004 until 2013. We find that the network exhibits some clustering with visible...

We identify an important feature of current digital governance systems: “third-party funded digital barter”: consumers of digital services get...

This paper models the welfare consequences of social fragmentation arising from technological advance. We start from the premise that...

In 2011, the EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (EUKFTA) entered into force. With its focus on nontariff barriers (NTBs), it is a leading...

We study the stability of trade policy arrangements under two regulatory scenarios, with/without PTAs. Unlike previous papers, we consider an...

The distribution of transport infrastructure across space is the outcome of deliberate government planning that reflects a desire to unlock...

In recent years, a number of Western industrialized nations have experienced a notable polarization of political ideologies, and growing...

Processes of regional economic integration have been shaping the economic relations between countries significantly during the last decades....