I survey the influence of Grossman and Hart's (1986) seminal paper in the field of International Trade. I discuss the … the structure of international trade flows. I also review empirical work suggestive of the empirical relevance of the …

The theory of international trade has paid scant attention to market institutions. Neither neoclassical theory nor new … trade models typically specify the process by which supply and demand meet. Yet in the real world, intermediaries play a … central role in materializing the gains from exchange outlined by standard trade theories. In Antràs and Costinot (2010), we …

This paper develops a simple model of international trade with intermediation. We consider an economy with two islands … frictions, our model reduces to a standard Ricardian model of trade. We use this simple model to contrast the implications of … changes in the access to these Walrasian markets, which allow farmers to trade with traders from different islands. We find …

explores the determinants of the average upstreamness of exports at the country level using trade flows for 2002. …

We survey an emerging literature at the intersection of organizational economics and international trade. We argue that …

This paper examines the role of the burden of proof (BoP) in National Treatment (NT) disputes under trade agreements …

features of offshoring introduce novel reasons for trade policy intervention? Does offshoring create new problems of global … policy cooperation whose solutions require international agreements with novel features? Can trade agreements that are … designed to address problems that arise when trade predominantly takes the form of the exchange of final goods be expected to …

The Most-Favored Nation clause (MFN) forbids Members of a trade agreement to discriminate between trading partners. It … agreements in the World Trade Organization. There seems to be a rather widespread belief among policy makers that there are …