responses that underpin them. Here, we combine theory and a unique geospatial dataset combining more than 25 million shipping … behaviour and aggregate transportation cost, as well as its environmental impact, with major implications for the shipping …

containerization and breakbulk shipping using micro-level trade data. The model is motivated by novel facts that relate container usage …, the box decreases variable shipping costs between 16 to 22 percent. The box explains a significant amount of the global …

A sketch of the International Monetary Fund's 70-year history reveals an institution that has reinvented itself over … time along multiple dimensions. This history is primarily consistent with a "demand driven" theory of institutional change …

trade relies on container shipping. This paper introduces a new monthly index of the volume of container trade to and from …%. The difference is mainly accounted for by unexpected reductions in frictions in the container shipping market. …

incorporating route choice by exporters within a Ricardian setting. We use the model to estimate trade costs on each shipping leg …

The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we survey the way in which the tax burden on labour has been proxied for … extent the conclusions of some studies change if some alternative indicator for the tax burden on labour is employed. We … indicator for the tax burden on labour is also shown to affect the conclusions of some well-known empirical models. …

Working from home (WFH) has become ubiquitous around the world. We ask how much workers actually value this job …