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 …

What is the impact on intra-national trade and regional economic outcomes when the quality and lane-capacity of an … transactions, we estimate a large positive impact of reduced travel times on trade as well as local manufacturing employment and …

international fora. Data presented show bilateral trade between Brazil and China surging after 2001 and China is now Brazil … rates suggest that China will become the dominant trade partner for Brazil surprisingly soon. …We document key features of the deepening economic relationship between Brazil and China. This is evident from sharply …

This paper uses Chinese customs data to investigate the trade effects of anti-dumping (AD) policies. Merging firm … larger ones, suggesting important within-industry reallocation effects. Moreover, we find evidence for trade deflection as AD …

With ever-increasing political tensions between China and Russia on one side and the EU and the US on the other, it … computable general equilibrium trade model calibrated with the latest version of the GTAP database to simulate the effect of … doubling non-tariff barriers - both unilateral and reciprocal - between the two blocks on trade and welfare. Imposing trade …

We document the outbreak of a trade war after the U.S. adopted the Smoot-Hawley tariff in June 1930. U.S. trade … retaliate by increasing their tariffs on imports from the United States. Using a new quarterly dataset on bilateral trade for 99 … possible mechanism whereby the U.S. was targeted despite countries’ MFN obligations. The retaliators’ welfare gains from trade …

We document the outbreak of a trade war after the U.S. adopted the Smoot-Hawley tariff in June 1930. U.S. trade … retaliate by increasing their tariffs on imports from the United States. Using a new quarterly dataset on bilateral trade for 99 … possible mechanism whereby the U.S. was targeted despite countries’ MFN obligations. The retaliators’ welfare gains from trade …

transport volumes. The recent Belt and Road Initiative provides an experiment that can be evaluated using matching econometrics …-run economic growth. However, it spurs employment and road freight by stimulating intermodal transport. …

International trade patterns at the product level are surprisingly dynamic. The majority of trade relationships exist … for just a few, often only one to three, years. In this paper, I examine empirically the duration in German import trade … large trade value and a low elasticity of substitution; and for trade pairs that command a large share of the German import …

affects trade patterns and economic welfare. We find that linguistic similarity within a country accounts for about 10 percent …