This paper examines the effects of trade frictions, including tariffs and a variety of factors that raise trade costs, on export market access at the product level and, in particular, the role these frictions have on the ability of developing countries to access world markets. We find that a...

The growth of Chinese exports both in volume and in market share over the past two decades is a singular event in the history of world trade. Using data from 1995-2005, we document this growth in a variety of ways. First, we show that the expanded trade is pervasive. Virtually every country in...

The paper analyzes capital flows to seven developed countries between 1990-2005. We consider the possible determinants of these flows. Total debt and total equity flows are analyzed seperately and also divided into sub ctagories. For debt flows we find that own interest rate plays a major...