With ever-increasing political tensions between China and Russia on one side and the EU and the US on the other, it … computable general equilibrium trade model calibrated with the latest version of the GTAP database to simulate the effect of … doubling non-tariff barriers - both unilateral and reciprocal - between the two blocks on trade and welfare. Imposing trade …

This paper uses Chinese customs data to investigate the trade effects of anti-dumping (AD) policies. Merging firm … larger ones, suggesting important within-industry reallocation effects. Moreover, we find evidence for trade deflection as AD …

contracts, mitigating information frictions in international trade. There is little evidence for the relaxation of financial …

We provide quantitative evidence that the primary effects of economic sanctions on trade and welfare are accompanied by … taken into account. Furthermore, while the extraterritorial burden of sanctions on trade falls primarily on target countries …, the corresponding effect on trade among senders and third countries is positive. General equilibrium analysis suggests …

What is the impact on intra-national trade and regional economic outcomes when the quality and lane-capacity of an … transactions, we estimate a large positive impact of reduced travel times on trade as well as local manufacturing employment and …

Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a common language trade … that this trade-promoting effect of language is likely to reflect cultural ties, rather than lower costs of communication … local dialect between regions have a sizable and significant positive impact on intra-national trade. We interpret this …

Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to … quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel … between 1.6 and 2.4 depending upon weighting. This provides an important contribution to the trade literature of Ricardian …

We re-visit the evidence about the trade benefits of European Monetary Union (EMU), focusing on the experience of … no evidence of a euro effect on trade flows among early euro adopters up to the year 2002. Second, this finding is robust … there is no robust evidence of a euro effect, there is evidence that intra-EU trade flows have expanded faster than the …

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 …