Since the 1970s, exports and imports of manufactured goods have been the engine of international trade and much of that … trade relies on container shipping. This paper introduces a new monthly index of the volume of container trade to and from … detrended data for personal consumption expenditures and manufacturing output suggest that the U.S. economy has recovered to …

aggregate structural change. Rising manufacturing productivity and falling international trade costs further contribute to the …Using firm-level data from France, we document that the shift of economic activity from manufacturing to services over … manufacturing firms that increasingly locate in suburban and rural areas. Motivated by these findings, we estimate a structural …

Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector …

We compare and contrast the economic growth performance of Croatia and Latvia since the collapse of communism in 1991 … governance, and institutional reforms have played a significant role in raising economic output and efficiency in both Croatia … and Latvia. The EU perspective made a more significant contribution to growth in Latvia than in Croatia, even if Latvia …

find that openness to international trade has quantitatively important effects, leading to higher wage inequality and lower …

options, we present evidence from the United States, Chile, Sweden and Croatia that older siblings' college and major choices …

). Quantile regression methods were considered in the context of the Brazilian manufacturing industry in 2005 and separate …