evaluate how the increased openness caused by China's accession to the WTO effects the importing and exporting sectors. We find …

This paper examines the role of international trade for job polarization, the phenomenon in which employment for high …

We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … trade shocks. High-wage workers are better able to move across employers with minimal earnings losses, and are more likely …

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 …

We offer a new explanation as to why international trade is so volatile in response to economic shocks. Our approach … combines the uncertainty shock idea of Bloom (2009) with a model of international trade, extending the idea to the open economy …, this response leads to a bigger contraction in international trade flows than in domestic economic activity. We confront …

evaluate firms’ value functions under individual or collective bargaining. Exporting further decreases average production costs …

This paper studies the performance of China's exports during the 2008—2009 financial crisis. It focuses on the speed at … which China's exports were hit by this downturn. Product-country monthly exports data is utilized. It is found that GDP … growth rates of importing countries play an important role in explaining how fast exports fall below the values of the same …

large: up to nine percentage points difference in trade performance can be explained by the quality composition of exports … imports by domestic alternatives, and was stronger for smaller firms' exports …. Combining a dataset of Argentinean firm-level destination-specific wine exports with quality ratings, we show that higher …

This paper investigates the economic value of trade when prices of transportation services are endogenous to cross …-market price spreads. This is relevant for liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. LNG transportation capacity is limited in the short … capture part of the price spread. We proceed to develop a method to value LNG exports under conditions of endogenous …

equations, trade is more sensitive to trade costs if the exporting country only provides a small share of the destination … country's imports. As a result, trade costs have a heterogeneous impact across country pairs, with some trade flows predicted … exporting country provides a small share of the destination country's imports. For other pairs, the currency union effect is …