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 …

increase in the number of lobbies has an impact on trade policy. It is also shown that an increase in the number of lobbies has …

subsidies. Both sets of policies have reduced national and global economic welfare, inhibited agricultural trade and economic … African country governments have reduced their sectoral and trade policy distortions, while some high-income countries also … price and trade policies. …

This paper explores the role of pooled-producer, e.g. private label, trade intermediation n 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 …

For decades, earnings from farming in Latin American countries have been depressed by pro-urban and anti-trade biases …. These policies have reduced national and global economic welfare, hampered agricultural trade and economic growth, and may … sectoral and trade policy distortions and some high income countries also have begun reducing market-distorting aspects of …