This paper focuses on self-selection into trade by exporting and importing firms, and on the presence of differential … heterogeneity and the connection between firm-level performance and international trade. They provide evidence on the remarkable …

This paper explores the role of pooled-producer, e.g. private label, trade intermediation in shaping the range and … diversity of exports. Direct sales maintain a firm's unique product characteristics (`brand equity'), whereas trade through an … trade variety for volume, firms face greater competition from the new pooled-products, and intermediaries capture much of …

's terms of trade, has diminished over the past two decades. So too has agricultural export taxation in poor countries, which … had the opposite impact on those terms of trade. Meanwhile, however, import protection for developing country farmers has … of trade (TOT, using the World Bank's Linkage model of the global economy), and second to model the effects of that TOT …

misleading as an indicator of the trade or welfare effects of policies affecting global markets. This article develops a new set … of more-satisfactory indicators, drawing on the recent literature on trade restrictiveness indexes. It then estimates …

. Fluctuations in international food prices are exacerbated by trade restrictions that vary with those prices, and are worst for the …, however, the gradual reduction in anti-agricultural and anti-trade policies in many Asian emerging economies in the past …

sectoral and trade policy distortions, while some high-income countries also have begun reforming their protectionist farm …

While barriers to trade in most goods and some services including capital flows have been reduced considerably over the … migration across borders. This paper focuses on how costly those anti-poor trade policies are, and examines possible strategies … process at the World Trade Organization (WTO), and freeing up the international movement of workers. A review of the economic …

and change in trade patterns in the region. We also highlight a potentially important source of future gains through …