This paper explores official trade data to identify patterns of smuggling in international trade. Our main measure of … interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the … with the level of corruption in both partner countries. This finding supports the hypothesis that trade gaps partly …

We develop a heterogeneous-firms model with trade in goods, labor mobility and credit constraints due to moral hazard … trade liberalization. While the former leads to more dispersion of economic activity across space, the latter tends to drive …

itself) to a sizable and statistically significant increase in trade between the member countries of EMU. In this paper, we … put the trade effect of the euro in historical perspective. We argue that the creation of the EMU was a continuation (or … strong evidence of a gradual increase in trade intensity between European countries. Once we control for this trend in trade …

In this paper, I reexamine the empirical relationship between trade openness and urban concentration. Using a panel … association between trade openness and the size of a country's largest city are not robust. More importantly, the openness …-concentration link disappears completely, once reverse causality and the endogeneity of trade are accounted for. There is no evidence …

bilateral trade flows between more than 200 countries over the period from 1960 to 1993. Applying an augmented gravity … actions reduce the volume of trade; a doubling in the number of terrorist incidents is associated with a decrease in bilateral … trade by about 4 percent. …