supply side at center stage, affording little or no role for demand or overseas trade. Recently, alternative explanations … have placed an emphasis on the importance of trade with New World colonies, and the expanded supply of raw cotton it … for 1760 and 1850. Neither claim is supported. Trade was vital for the progress of the industrial revolution; but it was …

Many previous studies of the role of trade during the British Industrial Revolution have found little or no role for … trade in explaining British living standards or growth rates. We construct a three-region model of the world in which … that while trade had only a small impact on British welfare in the 1760s, it had a very large impact in the 1850s. This …

importance of two-way trade in vertically differentiated goods, indicating that China and India are becoming more active …We explore the relative positions of China and India in the international fragmentation of automobile production by … analyzing disaggregated trade flows, while distinguishing between final and intermediate goods. The size and composition of …

We review theoretical and empirical work on the economic effects of the United States and China trade relations during … economic effects on different outcomes. We then focus on the recent U.S.-China trade war. We discuss methods used to evaluate … the China shock. The main lessons learned in this review are: (i) the aggregate gains from U.S.-China trade created …

Paper compares the integration of rice markets in China today and 270 years ago. In the 18th century, transport technology …How much of China’s recent economic performance can be attributed to market-oriented reforms introduced in the last two … pattern of interregional income in China is strongly linked to persistent geographic factors that were already apparent …

construction as a driver of China's demand for resource-intensive metal products. Second, it shows that global trade in non …Is China's demand for resources driven predominantly by domestic factors or by global demand for its exports? The … answer to this question is of interest given the highly resource-intensive nature of China's growth, and is important for …

trade. Design/methodology/approach – While the most recently available time-series and cross-sectional data from China are … China's dairy imports and implications for trade. …Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the growth and regional disparities of China's dairy market since 1980 …

-specific quotas following China’s entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led …