We analyze how trade openness matters for interstate conflict over productive resources. Our analysis features a terms-of-trade … channel that makes security policies trade-regime dependent. Specifically, trade between two adversaries reduces each one …, greater trade openness brings with it a reduction in resources diverted to conflict and thus wasted, as well as the familiar …

overcapacities have weakened China's bargaining position in the US-Chinese trade conflict and have tempted the Chinese authorities to …

Global value chains have fundamentally transformed international trade and development in recent decades. We use … firms position themselves in global production lines and how this evolves with productivity and performance over the firm … production stages conducted in China over the 1992-2014 period, both in the aggregate and within firms over time. Firms span more …

of 80 countries show how the relevance of the key NEG variable, market access, depends upon the trade costs specification …Trade costs are crucial in new economic geography (NEG) models. The unavailability of actual trade costs data requires … the approximation of trade costs. Most NEG studies do not deal with the ramifications of the particular trade costs …

international trade and can be destructive; however, once a winner is declared, arming is unnecessary in future periods. By contrast …, a peaceful resolution avoids destruction and supports mutually advantageous trade; yet, settlements must be renegotiated … initial distribution of resource endowments, greater gains from trade can reduce arming and pacify international tensions …

World trade evolves at two margins. Where a bilateral trading relationship already exists it may increase through time … (intensive margin). But trade may also increase if a trading bilateral relationship is newly established between countries that … growth in manufacturing world trade along these two margins. We propose a ?cornersolutions- version? of the gravity model to …

linkages, trade in intermediate goods and sectoral heterogeneity in production. We use our model to quantify the welfare effect …The economic effects of a pandemic crucially depend on the extend to which countries are connected in global production … networks. In this paper we incorporate production barriers induced by COVID-19 shock into a Ricardian model with sectoral …

International trade patterns at the product level are surprisingly dynamic. The majority of trade relationships exist … characteristics, product type and market structure. Specifically, I show that the duration of exporting a product to Germany is longer … market and are characterized by two-way trade. …

countries and 332 European regions. We find that two countries trade more with each other when they are more socially connected … and when they share social connections with a similar set of other countries. The social connections that determine trade … in each product are those between the regions where the product is produced in the exporting country and those where it …