exchange rate flexibility would have affected the German trade balance (TB) by simulating the shocks of the estimated model …. Results suggest an around 2 pp lower trade surplus during 2012-15 together with a stronger real effective exchange rate in the …

ten years, it has grown to a cumulated 1 Trillion USD. In times of severe trade policy disagreements across the Atlantic … billion USD. In the former case, national statistics on net services trade disagree by as much as 55 billion USD; in the …

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

of partial US sanctions decreases trade by 16 percent. When complete export and import sanctions are implemented, US …, respectively. In contrast, the application of partial export and import sanctions leads to a decrease in trade by 13 percent and 17 …We investigate the effects of US-imposed trade sanctions on the global trade patterns of sanctioned countries by …

Trade and growth theories predict a mutual causation of innovation and exports. We test empirically whether innovation … exogenous to firms' export performance. We find that innovation attributable to this variation leads to an increase of roughly 7 … percentage points in the export share of German manufacturing firms. The evidence is robust to several alternative specifications …