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The price of modern maritime piracy (with Sami Bensassi), IAI Working Paper (2011)

A growing body of literature has recently focused on the economic origins and consequences of...

 

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Determinants of maritime transport costs - a panel data analysis (with Gordon Wilmsmeier), Transportation Planning and Technology (2010)

This paper analyses the determinants of maritime transport costs for intra-Latin American trade over a...

 

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Maritime Networks, Services Structure and Maritime Trade (with Gordon Wilmsmeier, Eva Pérez-García, and Laura M´qrquez-Ramos), Networks and Spatial Economics (2010)

This paper aims at investigating the relationship between maritime trade and maritime transport costs at...

 

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Aid and Trade – A Donor’s Perspective (with Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann D., Stephan Klasen, and Dierk Herzer), Journal of Development Studies (2009)

One reason donors provide foreign aid is to support their exports to aid-recipient countries. Time...

 

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Are Regional Trading Agreements Beneficial? Static and Dynamic Panel Gravity Models (with Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann D. and Nicholas Horsewood), North American Journal of Economics and Finance (2009)

This paper evaluates the effects of preferential agreements on trade between trade group members and...

 

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Does German Development Aid Promote German Exports? (with Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann D., Stephan Klasen, and Mario Larch), German Economic Review (2009)

This paper uses a static and dynamic gravity model of trade to investigate the link...

 

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Unit Values, Productivity, and Trade - Determinants of Spanish Export Strength (with Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann D. and Sebastian Vollmer), Global Economic Journal (2009)

In this paper we assess the current relevance of different sources of international competitiveness. Relative...

 

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The Effect of Trade Facilitation on Sectoral Trade (with Laura Márquez-Ramos), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2008)

This paper aims to analyse the effect of trade facilitation on sectoral trade flows. We...

 

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DO TRANSPORT COSTS HAVE A DIFFERENTIAL EFFECT ON TRADE AT THE SECTORAL LEVEL? (with Eva María Pérez-García and Celestino Suárez-Burguet), Applied Economics (2008)

This paper aims to analyse the determinants of transport costs and to investigate their influence...

 

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The Role of Distance in Gravity Regressions: Is There Really a Missing Globalisation Puzzle? (with Laura Márquez-Ramos and Celestino Suárez-Burguet), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2007)

The main aim of this paper is to investigate the role of distance in gravity...

 

IS DISTANCE A GOOD PROXY FOR TRANSPORT COSTS?: THE CASE OF COMPETING TRANSPORT MODES (with Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann D.), Journal of International Trade and Economic Development (2007)

In this paper, we analyze separately the determinants of maritime transport and road transport costs...

 

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"The Impact of a Customs Union between Turkey and the EU on Turkey's Exports to the EU (with Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann D. and Sebastian Vollmer), Journal of Common Market Studies (2007)

This article investigates Turkey's sectoral trade flows to the EU based on panel data from...

 

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the Impact of Population on CO2 Emissions: Evidence from European Countries (with Aurelia Bengochea-Morancho and Rafael Morales-Lage), Environmental and Resource Economics (2007)

This paper analyses the impact of population growth on CO2 emissions in European Union countries....

 

Contributions to Books

Competitiveness: A Comparison of China and Mexico (with Felicitas Nowak-Lehman D. and Sebastian Vollmer), Dimensions of Competitiveness (2010)
 

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EU-ACP ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS (with Sebastian Vollmer, Nils Klann, and Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann D.), World Development Report 2009-Development in 3D: Density, Distance, Division (2009)

We estimate the welfare effects of the Economic Partnership Agreements between the EU and nine...

 

Unpublished Papers

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Bilateral Trade Flows and Income-Distribution Similarity (with Sebastian Vollmer), Working Papers on International Economics and Finance (2011)

This paper accounts for non-homothetic preferences by specifically investigating the role of income per capita...

 

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CEECs Integration into Regional and Global Production Networks (with Anca Voicu and Martina Vidovic) (2011)

We estimate a gravity model that incorporates the extensive margin of trade and accounts for...

 

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How Costly is Modern Maritime Piracy to the International Community? (with Sami Bensassi) (2011)

This paper focuses on the impact of maritime piracy on international trade. Piracy increases the...

 

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Trade in intermediate goods and regional production networks. An application for Latin America (with Marcelo Florensa, Laura Marquez-Ramos, and maria Luisa Recalde) (2011)

This paper quantifies the effects of two regional integration agreements in Latin America (LA), namely...

 

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Economic integration and the two margins of trade: An application to the Euro-Mediterranean agreements (with Sami Bensassi and Laura Marquez-Ramos), CREMed Best Paper Award Winner, WP 2, December 2010 (2010)

According to trade theory preferential trade agreements increase international trade through a reduction in artificial...

 

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Determinants of the dynamics of the European Union integration process: An ordered logit approach (with Laura Marquez and Celes Suarez) (2009)

This research has three main aims: firstly, to empirically analyse the determinants of different levels...

 

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Trade as Aid: The Role of the EBA-Trade Preferences Regime in the Development Strategy (with Katerina Gradeva), Ibero America Institute for Econ. Research (IAI) Discussion Papers N 197 (2009)

This study focuses primarily on trade preferences offered by the European Union (EU) and in...

 

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The Impact of Urbanization on CO2 Emissions: Evidence from Developing Countries, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers (2008)

This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions in developing countries. In this...