• openAccess   The Euro and the CFA Franc: Evidence of Sectoral Trade Effects 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada Springer (2019)
      This paper estimates a gravity model of trade to evaluate the trade effects of the Euro on sectoral trade within the Eurozone (EZ), the CFA Franc Zone (CFA) and between the EZ and the CFA, when CFA countries acquired fixed ...
    • openAccess   The Trade Facilitation Impact of the Chinese Diaspora 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Rudolf, Robert Wiley (2020-03-04)
      Using an enhanced dataset on the population share of overseas Chinese in 1970 and 1990, this paper analyzes the impact of the Chinese diaspora on facilitating China’s bilateral trade during the period 1973- 2013. Our ...
    • openAccess   Trade policy versus trade facilitation: An application using "Good Old" OLS 

      Márquez-Ramos, Laura; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Suárez-Burguet, Celestino Dennis J. Snower (2012)
      Trade policy barriers are only one element of overall trade costs. Among these, and due to the decrease in the influence of tariff barriers on trade over time, institutional barriers might increase in relative importance ...