This paper presents a new methodology to measure border effects from a different
perspective with respect to the standard gravitational approach. The methodology proposed …

abstract The literature on borders as barriers to economic growth presents some
weaknesses in conceptualizing and measuring border effects due to obstacles of different …

Country borders are traditionally interpreted as barriers to trade, since they limit the access
to large markets of goods and intermediate assets, with negative effects on production …

In late 2019, Article 24 of the China State Council's Guiding Opinions on Promoting High-
quality Trade Development emphasized protection and construction of intellectual property …

We propose a model of international oligopoly with two countries, two vertically-
differentiated goods, and heterogeneous consumers in terms of their willingness to pay for …

This study employs a differentiated Cournot model with both horizontal and vertical product
differentiation. It scrutinizes the implications of frictions over manufacturing high quality …

In a trade model with both horizontal and vertical product differentiation, we analyze the
implications of upstream market power for the endogenous mode of downstream …