of trade credit by minority-owned small businesses. Results based on the 1993 National Survey of Small Business Finance … (NSSBF) indicate that ethnic differences in the use of trade credit are present after conditioning on an extensive list of … control variables. This holds especially for Black-owned businesses, and we find that they use less trade credit, are less …

also present results from a VAR estimation of aggregate trade equations on the relative importance of foreign income and … find evidence that a considerable shifting of trade patterns is taking place, consistent with a ‘flying geese’ pattern in …

examine the trade destruction and trade diversion associated with Japanese exports to the US market resulting from US AD … these US policies on Japanese exports to the EU. We document sizable trade deflection and trade depression in the EU market … increase in exports. Finally, we present evidence that US ADDs impose terms-of-trade externalities on non-targeted markets. We …

This paper undertakes an exhaustive search for robust determinants of international trade, where "robustness" is tested … and to the received theory of international trade. We find that robust variables include a measure of the scale of factor …

Fixed transaction costs and delivery lags are important costs of international trade. These costs lead firms to import … to a sudden, large increase in the relative price of imported goods creates a short-term trade implosion, an immediate …

This paper examines the extent to which the composition of a country's production and trade differs among its trade … partners. For example, does the US export the same bundle of goods to the UK as it does to Japan? If we find high dispersion in … characteristics? These findings are important for two reasons. First, they enrich our empirical understanding of the nature of trade …

This paper estimates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on the trade policies of thirteen major emerging economies over … the extensive margin. New import restrictions on products arise through the temporary trade barriers (TTBs) – antidumping …, safeguards, and countervailing duties – that have become some of the most important time-varying trade policies in use. Our …

of Leamer (1983). Variables considered are (i) bilateral trade between countries; (ii) total trade in each country; (iii … that bilateral trade is robust. However, two variables that the literature has argued are important for business cycles …