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 …

transport volumes. The recent Belt and Road Initiative provides an experiment that can be evaluated using matching econometrics …-run economic growth. However, it spurs employment and road freight by stimulating intermodal transport. …

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 document the outbreak of a trade war after the U.S. adopted the Smoot-Hawley tariff in June 1930. U.S. trade … retaliate by increasing their tariffs on imports from the United States. Using a new quarterly dataset on bilateral trade for 99 … possible mechanism whereby the U.S. was targeted despite countries’ MFN obligations. The retaliators’ welfare gains from trade …

affects trade patterns and economic welfare. We find that linguistic similarity within a country accounts for about 10 percent …

particularly strongly across generations, such as education and health spending, green energy, and major transport projects. In …

show that the disruption in rail transport increases bus ticket sales. Crucially, the effect persists beyond the strike …, indicating that travellers do not return to their originally preferred mode of transport. It is particularly pronounced for …