investigation, I build a multi-country trade model with endogenous adoption of a new transportation technology that is consistent … future usage, adoption costs, and trade with the United States, the first and largest user of containerization. …

This paper measures the effects of the risks associated with the war in Iraq on various U.S. financial variables using … a heteroskedasticity-based estimation technique. The results indicate that increases in what we call the "war risk …

countries have collectively seen an improvement in their terms of trade during the crisis, reversing pre-crisis declines. The …

Though China's share of world trade is comparable to that of Japan, little is known about the response of China's trade … to changes in exchange rates. The few estimates available suffer from two limitations. First, the data for trade prices … empirical model explaining the shares of China's exports and imports in world trade in terms of the real effective value of the …

We construct a new linked data set with over one thousand offshoring events by matching Trade Adjustment Assistance …

Trade credit--credit extended by a seller who does not require immediate payment for delivery of a product--is an …' nonmortgage loans from banks. Trade credit apparently is especially important for small businesses: In the same year, it accounted … for about 20 percent of small firms' liabilities. ; Businesses that choose to finance their purchases through trade credit …

We study the role of labor market mismatch in the adjustment to a trade liberalization that results in the offshoring …