With the success of the GATT/WTO in reducing conventional tariff barriers, much of the
recent focus of both regional and multilateral trade agreements has switched to nontariff …

This chapter focuses on the estimation and interpretation of gravity equations for bilateral
trade. This necessarily involves a careful consideration of the theoretical underpinnings …

Barriers to international trade are known to be large but because of data limitations it is hard
to measure them directly for a large number of countries over many years. To address this …

Using novel estimates of sectoral total factor productivities for 72 countries across 5 decades
we provide evidence of relative productivity convergence: productivity grew systematically …

We use newly collected data on trade and production in 178 countries to infer estimates of
trade costs in agriculture and manufactured goods for the 1995-2010 period. The data show …

A country's ability to trade globally depends to a great extent on the traders' access to
efficient logistics networks. The efficiency of logistics networks, in its turn, depends on …

We use new data on trade and production in 167 countries to infer estimates of trade costs
for manufactured goods and agriculture for 1996‒2010. Trade costs are strongly declining …

What precisely were the causes and consequences of the trade wars in the 1930s? Were
there perhaps deeper forces at work in reorienting global trade prior to the outbreak of World …

Abstract Foreign Direct Investment has become one of the major challenges for the countries
who participated in international economy. It affects the host country by increasing its …

This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of China's trade integration and
technological change in a multi-country quantitative Ricardian-Heckscher-Ohlin model. We …