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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 … trade prior to the crisis are hit by the recession earlier than other products …

In recent years wages in China have been rising and the yuan has appreciated, potentially eroding China's cost … advantage in manufactures. This paper explores the evolution of China's relative unit labor costs in manufacturing over 1998 …-2009. Between 1998 and 2003 China's unit labor costs fell, but since 2003 they have increased both absolutely and relative to US …

Latin American countries have lost competitiveness in world markets in comparison to China over the last two decades … estimated using panel data. The explanatory variables considered are productivity, unit labor costs, unit values, trade costs …, price levels (in PPP), and real exchange rates in relative terms. Due to data restrictions, China's relative exports (to the …