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 … estimates connecting country-industry productivity and exports, and the study exploits heterogeneous technology diffusion from …

trade using a theory-consistent structural gravity model. We exploit a rich panel data set including domestic trade flows … effect of past and potential future trade facilitation efforts for middle, low and high income countries. Full endowment … general equilibrium effects suggest that lower and middle income countries benefit most in all scenarios in terms of trade and …

This paper assesses whether the sensitivity of bilateral trade volumes to various trade cost factors is constant or … varies across countries. It utilizes a random coeffcients model and analyses a cross-sectional sample of bilateral trade data … for 96 countries in 2005. We expect the elasticity of trade to vary particularly with bilateral distance and bilateral …

A structural gravity model is used to estimate barriers to services trade across many sectors, countries and time …

In this paper we test the well-known hypothesis of Obstfeld and Rogoff (2000) that trade costs are the key to … fundamental revision of Obstfeld and Rogoff’s argument. A further novelty of our work is in tying bilateral trade behavior to … desired aggregate trade balances and desired intertemporal trade. …

We build a model of tacit collusion between firms that operate in multiple markets to study the effects of trade costs … strategically linked via the incentive compatibility constraint. Importantly, trade costs affect cartel shipments and welfare not … only directly but also indirectly through discipline. Using extensive data on international cartels, we find that trade …

We develop a structural framework that allows us to quantify the evolution of aggregate bilateral trade costs and … markups over time. With minimal assumptions, we can disentangle aggregate markup and trade cost changes from observed changes … in trade flows. We apply our method to trade data between 1990 and 2015 for the world’s 100 largest economies. We find …

We investigate the effect of immigration on consumer prices in Spain between 1997 and 2013. Using variation across … that immigration has actually reduced consumer prices in Spain. An increase in the share of migrants by 10 percentage … immigration from outside Western Europe that led to a reduction in consumer prices, while the effect of immigration from Western …

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 …