We analyze the trade and production patterns of countries located at varying distances from an economic centre. Exports … trade depend both on factor endowments and factor intensities, and on distance and the transport intensities of different … goods. Countries divide into zones with different trade patterns, some export oriented and others import substituting. We …

trade patterns in a historical dataset on Chinese rice prices. Our results suggest that spatial features were important for … the expansion of interregional trade. Geography dictates, first, over what distances trade was possible in different … the direction in which a trading network is expanding. Moreover, our analysis captures the impact of new trade routes both …

The effects of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) are disputed. In this paper, we assess these effects using capital … when RTAs are signed between countries that already engage in high volumes of trade. Stock markets also rise more when …

, sequential exporting has novel policy implications: a reduction in trade barriers has delayed effects, while also promoting entry … in third markets. This trade externality poses challenges for the quantification of the effects of trade liberalization … programs and implies that the consequences of international trade agreements are significantly richer than traditional models …

Worker industry affiliation plays a crucial role in how trade policy affects wages in many trade models. Yet, most … research has focused on how trade policy affects wages by altering the economy-wide returns to a specific worker characteristic … (i.e. skill or education) rather than through worker-industry affiliation. This Paper exploits drastic trade …

All preferential trading agreements (PTAs) short of a customs union use Rules of Origin (RoO) to prevent trade …

estimates to construct theoretically-sound trade restrictiveness indices (TRIs) and GDP losses associated with existing tariff …

Most of the large tariff reductions achieved in multilateral trade negotiations have involved tariff-cutting formulas … target how far they will move towards free trade, while providing some flexibility for trading off reductions in peak tariffs …