consider a unique data set of exports from individual U.S. states to foreign countries and combine it with trade flows within …

ascertain that today's trade issues in Northeast Asia go beyond the traditional mechanisms of tariffs, and include "behind … concludes that when tariffs tend to become low in Northeast Asia, the economies in this region could potentially benefit …

The debate on trade and growth increasingly focuses on the composition of exports. Exports of more “sophisticated …” products appear to be positively correlated with growth, and upgrading the quality of exports is high on the policy agenda of … country's export basket. The empirical analysis relates unit values of exports measured at the 4-digit SITC level to data on …

. Combining a dataset of Argentinean firm-level destination-specific wine exports with quality ratings, we show that higher … quality exports grew faster before the crisis, but this trend reversed during the recession. Quantitatively, the effect is … large: up to nine percentage points difference in trade performance can be explained by the quality composition of exports …

Recent quantitative trade models treat import tariffs as pure cost shifters so that their effects are similar to … iceberg trade costs. We introduce revenue-generating import tariffs, which act as demand shifters, into the framework of … quantification based on countries' observed degrees of openness, tariff revenues, and on the gravity elasticities of tariffs and …