Mexican exports to the US in 2001, this Paper estimates the likely costs of different RoO for final and intermediate goods … revealed preference criterion that estimated costs should be less than preference rates when utilization rates are …

effects across countries subjected to some set of PSRO and to compute estimates of the compliance costs associated with rules …

surveying Pakistani soccer-ball producers. We document six facts: (1) Mark-ups are more dispersed than costs; (2) Mark-ups and … costs increase with firm size; (3) The mark-up elasticity with respect to size exceeds the cost elasticity; (4) Costs …

reduce the overall costs of the international movement of goods. From an equity perspective an important question is how …

This Paper focuses on two distinct facets of globalization: the decrease in the trade costs of goods and the decline of … communication costs between headquarters and production facilities within firms. When the unskilled have about the same wage in the … two regions, the decrease of these costs fosters the gradual agglomeration of plants in the core region accommodating the …

intermediate inputs for economies in the Asia-Pacific region and examine the impact on domestic producer prices of changes in costs …

Three main features characterize the international financial integration of China and India. First, while only having a … small global share of privately-held external assets and liabilities (with the exception of China’s FDI liabilities), these … “short equity, long debt.” Third, China and India have improved their net external positions over the last decade although …

The Great Leap Forward (GLF) disaster, characterized by a collapse of grain output, and the associated famine in China …