The gravity model has been extensively used in international trade research for the last 40
years because of its considerable empirical robustness and explanatory power. Since their …

The existing trade literature on the gravity model is extensive. This paper aims to present a
survey of the current gravity model by taking stock of the existing knowledge on the major …

Although economists have long been aware of Jensen's in-equality, many econometric
applications have neglected an important implication of it: under heteroskedasticity, the …

We explore a new panel data set on bilateral gross cross-border equity flows between 14
countries, 1989–1996. We show that a “gravity” model explains international transactions in …

While a mega-sport event is scheduled at least once every year somewhere in the world,
these events are rare occurrences for the host cities and countries. The benefits of such …

This paper documents the construction of BACI, our international trade database, which
covers more than 200 countries and 5,000 products, between 1994 and 2007. New …

I-Hui Cheng and Howard J. Wall been common to instead specify the augmented model
using per capita income, which captures the same effects. 3 Whichever specification of the …

This paper uses a gravity model to assess ex-post regional trade agreements. The model
includes 130 countries and is estimated with panel data over the period 1962–1996. The …

This study uses a theoretically justified gravity model of trade to examine the impact of the
ASEAN–China Free Trade Agreement (ACFTA) on exports, focusing on trade creation and …

We work with a panel of bilateral trade, exploring the influence of infrastructure and
institutional quality on patterns of trade with a Poisson estimator, extended with the Baier …