. Owing to this linkage, trade cost reductions induce cartel members to adjust their sales, not only due to direct effects …, but also due to spillover effects related to cartel discipline. We apply these ideas to preferential trade agreements … (PTAs) and show that the indirect effects can give rise to trade diversion. We also characterize the welfare effects of …

equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive database covering manufacturing trade for 186 … countries over the period 1980-2016, we find that the average impact of GATT/WTO membership on trade among member counties is … for non-member countries. We show that countries not experiencing positive trade effects from joining GATT/WTO can still …

Capitalizing on the latest developments in the gravity literature, we utilize two new datasets on sanctions and trade … to study the impact of economic sanctions on international trade in the mining sector, which includes oil and natural gas …. We demonstrate that the gravity equation is well suited to model bilateral trade in mining and find that sanctions have …

We propose a simple and flexible econometric approach to quantify ex-ante the "deep" impact of trade liberalization and … measure of the change in bilateral trade costs in response to a hypothetical policy change. To demonstrate the effectiveness … of our methods, we focus on the integration between the countries from the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA …

structural gravity model. To test the ETWFE, we estimate the effects of regional trade agreements (RTAs). The results suggest … expect the ETWFE methods to have significant implications for the estimates of other policy variables in the trade literature …

structural gravity model. To test the ETWFE, we estimate the effects of regional trade agreements (RTAs). The results suggest … expect the ETWFE methods to have significant implications for the estimates of other policy variables in the trade literature …

trade. We also obtain estimates of the effects on trade of the 2014 sanctions on Russia, …

1697 goods originating in 112 countries, to analyse the impact on Canadian imports of interwar Canadian trade policy …, including the 1932 Ottawa trade agreements. Rather than use a dummy variable approach, we compute the impact of individual … tariffs which varied substantially across goods, trade partners, and time. We develop a novel method of controlling for …

The unbundling of trade across regions offers unique opportunities for SMEs to integrate into global trade notably … factoring has a positive effect in allowing SMEs to access international trade, in countries in which it is available. Factoring …

The unbundling of trade across regions offers unique opportunities for SMEs to integrate into global trade notably … factoring has a positive effect in allowing SMEs to access international trade, in countries in which it is available. Factoring …