A recent boom in commodities-for-manufactures trade between China and other developing countries has led to much …

regional trade agreements involving the US. We exploit the variation in the frequency with which the US has granted immediate … duty free access (IDA) to its Free Trade Area partners across tariff lines. A key finding is that the US has granted IDA … Uruguay Round (multilateral) ‘concessions’ have emulated subsequent (preferential) trade liberalisation. We conclude from this …

We provide a novel set of stylized facts on firms engaging in international trade in services, using unique firm …-level data on services exports and imports in the United Kingdom in 2000- 2005. Less than 10% of firms trade in services but they …, the frequency and trade intensity of services traders is often higher in sectors such as high- tech manufacturing …

transport services, we employ the structural panel VAR method that is popular in the macroeconomic literature, but which has not … economic outcomes and supply of transport infrastructure mutually determine each other. Both transport demand and supply seem …

transit lines. This massive public investment allows me to examine the consequences of transport improvements for land prices … transport improvements, identified by the parcel-station distance reductions, give rise to sizeable price premiums in the local … essential role to play in spurring the spatially targeted land market and provide implications for further land and transport …

Development of urban transport infrastructures is a key policy focus---particularly in countries like China which have …’ happiness, but these benefits have strong social-spatial differentiations. These findings add to the evidence that transport …

manufacturers in China and six in India; a range of general component suppliers in both countries, and on a detailed benchmarking …

unilateral low wage trade and competition shock to producers in Mexico. Wefind that this shock causes selection at both firm and …