Distance between buyers and sellers can create search and contracting problems: how to
find out what goods are available in far away places, and ensure they are actually …

How much have falling transport costs through the diffusion of transport networks contributed
to the growth of cross-border investment? Exploring rich cross-country transport network and …

Although the aviation industry is increasingly becoming important for Africa's economic
development and integration, the ability of airlines to access foreign markets remains …

ABSTRACT I study the positive relationship between prices of tradable goods and per-capita
income. I develop a highly tractable general equilibrium model of international trade with …

Abstract The United States has negotiated bilateral open skies agreements to deregulate
airline competition on US international routes, but little is known about their effects on …

The dynamism of air traffic markets in the Middle East obscures the persistence of
restrictions on international competition. But how important are such restrictions for …

In this paper, we examine the effects of the open skies agreement signed between the EU
and Morocco in December 2006. Specifically, we exploit the fact that Morocco was the only …

In this paper, the authors analyze and compare the role of international trade for productivity
growth within the service and the manufacturing sector. They distinguish between trade in …

Travel visas impose additional costs to firms engaging in international trade. This paper
exploits a natural experiment provided by the Schengen Agreement to document a large …

This paper, based on a published report by the International Transport Forum at the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (ITF), examines the issues, or …