vindicating the position that the legal system had a marginal role in mitigating agency problems in long-distance trade in this … historical era.** Edwards and Ogilvie constantly present legal actions in non-trade related legal cases as evidence for a … reliance on the legal system for matters pertaining to long-distance trade. Their criticism of Greif's documentary analysis …

What has driven trade booms and trade busts in the past and present? We derive a micro-founded measure of trade … frictions from leading trade theories and use it to gauge the importance of bilateral trade costs in determining international … trade flows. We construct a new balanced sample of bilateral trade flows for 130 country pairs across the Americas, Asia …

We propose a normative assessment of the value of international trade that is rooted in production theory and embeds … Ricardo's 1817 formulation of the gains from trade into a multi-factor general equilibrium framework. Without imposing strong … the magnitude and the sources of the gains from trade. A high quality data set on product and task-specific factor …

Colonial trade encouraged the colonies to specialise in primary products. Did this prevent in-dustrialisation in the … examine the impact of the temporary collapse in trade between Britain and India due to World War I, on industrialisation and … anti-imperial feelings in India. Exploiting cross-district variation in exposure to the trade shock stemming from initial …

for exploiting an intangible. The analysis of the relationship between income taxes and trade taxes shows that in extreme …

overcapacities have weakened China’s bargaining position in the US-Chinese trade conflict and have tempted the Chinese authorities to …