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 …

Despite scads research on the relationship between corporate social responsibility and
financial performance, literature is still inconclusive. This study attempts to examine the …

Gravity models have been extensively used to evaluate the trade effects of regional trading
arrangements,(RTAs), especially over the last 10 years or so. Questions addressed by …

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

For over 40 years, the gravity equation has been a workhorse for cross-country empirical
analyses of international trade flows and—in particular—the effects of free trade agreements …

This paper aims at exploring how the export competitiveness of the European Union has
been affected by environmental regulation and innovation. Starting from the Porter idea that …

Numerous gravity applications have resorted to panel data econometric techniques over the
past decade. However, with the theory of gravity being so far only static, these estimations …

This paper presents an AR (1) model in the spirit of Hausman and Taylor zero differences
between actual and in‐sample predicted trade flows. Large systematic differences between …

This paper applies the gravity trade model to assess Mercosur-European Union trade, and
trade potential following the agreements reached recently between both trade blocs. The …