"The authors determine how time delays affect international trade using newly collected World Bank data on the days it … reduces trade by at least 1 percent. Put differently, each day is equivalent to a country distancing itself from its trade … partners by 70 kilometers on average. Delays have an even greater impact on developing country exports and exports of time …

"The United States imports around 25 percent of its merchandise under some form of preferential trade regime. The … authors examine both the origins and consequences of U.S. trade preferences in the context of the gravity model of … international trade. First, they provide estimates of the impact of preferential trade regimes in terms of access to U.S. markets …

.1 percent increase in exports transported by road while no significant effect is estimated for exports on other transport modes … (rail, sea, and air); (ii) the resulting increase in exports by road was reflected by a decrease in exports transported by …) only exports of time-sensitive products responded positively and significantly to improvements in the EWH during the 2006 …

-level bilateral trade data to construct, for each country and time period, a predicted value of external finance need of exports based … could therefore shape trade patterns. This paper points out the reverse link: financial development is influenced by … intensive sectors. After trade opening demand for external finance, and therefore financial development, are higher in a country …

imports forces firms to improve the quality of their products. The econometric analysis relies on a rich dataset of Chilean … upgrading. The overall evidence points to the benefits of trade openness for product innovation but demonstrates at the same …

"The records of traditional safeguard provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade …

"This paper briefly reviews new indices of trade restrictiveness and trade facilitation that have been developed at the … World Bank. The paper also compares the trade impact of different types of trade restrictions applied at the border with the … effects of domestic policies that affect trade costs. Based on a gravity regression framework, the analysis suggests that …

"Trade costs and nontariff barriers are at the forefront of discussions on competitiveness and expanding trade … has been informed by work underway at the World Bank on trade facilitation over the past several years to catalogue data … trade costs and barriers, much more is needed. In order to assess progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals …