increased bilateral trade and foreign direct investment flows and also from enhanced cohesion of negotiating positions in … international fora. Data presented show bilateral trade between Brazil and China surging after 2001 and China is now Brazil … the two countries has also significantly increased in recent years. Projections of future trade flows using current growth …

Natural resources account for 20% of world trade, and dominate the exports of many countries. Policy is used to … (equivalent to trade taxes if no domestic production is possible). We review the literature, and argue that the policy equilibrium …

We build and estimate a structural dynamic general equilibrium model of growth and trade. Trade affects growth through …, growth affects trade, directly through changes in country size and indirectly through altering the incidence of trade costs …. Theory translates into an intuitive econometric system that identifies the causal impact of trade on income and growth, and …

We quantify the effect of container technology on transport costs and trade by estimating the modal choice between … containerization and breakbulk shipping using micro-level trade data. The model is motivated by novel facts that relate container usage … trade increase since its inception: a quantitative exercise suggests that Turkish and U.S. maritime exports would have been …

What causes U.S. trade with Mexico and Canada to continue growing faster, for up to a decade, relative to countries … with which the U.S. does not have a free trade agreement? Baier and Bergstrand (2007) suggest that tariff phase-out and … tariff cuts negotiated under the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) affected …

Trade and innovation cause structural change. Productive factors must flow from declining to growing industries. Banks … advantage and trade, and can magnify the gains from trade liberalization. The analysis shows how insolvency laws, minimum … capital standards, and cost of bank equity determine credit reallocation, sectoral expansion and trade patterns. …

into the global economy through trade and FDI inflows, China is seen as primarily manufacturing-lead growth with India as … different comparative mode. That their bilateral closeness is deepening is evident in a number of areas. On the trade front …, India-China bilateral trade has increased by a factor of 33 between 1995 and 2007, and this growth has occurred at an …

We extend structural gravity models of bilateral trade flows to oligopolistic competition. We show that conventional … gravity estimates do not only reflect trade costs but also market power. Our simple estimation procedure generalizes the … standard gravity model and disentangles exogenous trade frictions and endogenous market power distortions. We use our estimated …