This paper explores official trade data to identify patterns of smuggling in international trade. Our main measure of … interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the … with the level of corruption in both partner countries. This finding supports the hypothesis that trade gaps partly …

specialization and trade on growth and inequality for a small developing country. Among other results, we show that a small … developing economy grows faster than the rest of the world as a result of global fragmentation and trade in intermediates if it … is skilled-labor scarce. We also address the effects of such trade opening on wage inequality. …