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 …

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 … to shipment, destination and firm characteristics. We find container transport to have a higher first-mile cost and a …

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 …

of refrigerated containers (or reefers) on new trade of temperature sensitive products. Our identification strategy is … growth of trade in "reefer commodities" and stimulated trade in non-traditional (exotic) non-bulk commodities such as … usage on bilateral trade routes with newly collected data on temperature sensitivity and applies them to 5-digit product …

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 …