We build and estimate a structural dynamic general equilibrium model of growth and trade. Trade affects growth through …, growth affects trade, directly through changes in country size and indirectly through altering the incidence of trade costs …. Theory translates into an intuitive econometric system that identifies the causal impact of trade on income and growth, and …

critical contemporary issues without the ammunitions of a more complex neo-classical system. Trade pampers inequality all … across the globe independent of trade patterns. It is likely to increase growth rate but that rate declines over time …

We quantify the effect of container technology on transport costs and trade by estimating the modal choice between … containerization and breakbulk shipping using micro-level trade data. The model is motivated by novel facts that relate container usage … trade increase since its inception: a quantitative exercise suggests that Turkish and U.S. maritime exports would have been …

The availability and composition of labor is fundamental for the structure of international trade. This points towards … the importance of demographic transitions that affect trade through, for example, changing capital-labor ratios … link long-run changes of the demographic dividend to changes in the level of world trade for the 21st century. All the …

increased bilateral trade and foreign direct investment flows and also from enhanced cohesion of negotiating positions in … international fora. Data presented show bilateral trade between Brazil and China surging after 2001 and China is now Brazil … the two countries has also significantly increased in recent years. Projections of future trade flows using current growth …

Gravity equations have been used for more than 50 years to estimate ex post the partial effects of trade costs on … international trade flows, and the well-known - and traditionally presumed exogenous - "trade-cost elasticity" plays a central role … in computing general equilibrium trade-flow and welfare effects of trade-cost changes. This paper addresses theoretically …

What has been the overall global welfare impact of the accession to the World Trade Organization of a large country … simple user-friendly formula to calculate the global welfare impact of the simultaneous trade liberalization of a number of … countries? How sensitive is the answer to the assumption of the trade model? We find a striking answer to these questions. We …

international trade is the use of quantitative trade models to estimate the economic welfare losses from dissolutions of major … 2019, the existence of the entire North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is at risk if the United States withdraws - a … use state-of-the-art econometric methodology to estimate the partial (average treatment) effects on international trade …

Trade facilitation policy focuses on accelerated and transparent shipment processing to reduce trade costs. A common … economically relevant to determine import processing costs, predict who would benefits from trade facilitation, and interpret …