In: Environmental and Resource Economics, 2015, vol. 60, no. 2, p. 191-213
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2018 ; 2018ECO016.
This thesis explores the role of different measures of proximity on some topics related to international trade. We focus on how institutional setting (institutional proximity) and network structure (cognitive and social proximity) influence the geography of international trade. In the first chapter, we extend the results of Rose and Spiegel (2011) and the findings by Bista (2017) proposing a...
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In: Review of World Economics, 2003, vol. 139, no. 2, p. 220-247
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In: International Economics and Economic Policy, 2011, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 197-224
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In: Review of World Economics, 2003, vol. 139, no. 4, p. 601-624
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(Working Papers SES ; 442)
Trust in the citizens of a potential partner country may affect the decision to trade with or to migrate to a foreign country. This paper employs panel data to examine the causal impact of such bilateral trust on international trade and migration patterns. We apply instrumental variables (IV) approaches that capture the exogenous variance of bilateral trust separately with eight indicators of...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2010 ; 2010ECO005.
Real options refer to the investment, entry, exit and other strategic decisions of the firm that share three important characteristics: they are irreversible, they are made under uncertainty, and their timing is chosen by the firm. The term `real options' was introduced in 1977 by Stewart Myers in his paper `Determinants of corporate borrowing' that related risky debt holdings to the future...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2002 ; 2002ECO001.
This thesis explores a way of representing the structure of the international trade system and of understanding its behaviour. Its main contribution is a model, developed following computer simulation methodology, that deals with interactions and interdependencies in international trade, and consequently, with the study of patterns of trade and trading bloc formation. The simulation model allows...
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