, which may potentially negatively affect international trade. Customs around the world have therefore implemented security …-motivated certification programs to facilitate licit trade. These programs offer trustworthy trading firms, i.e., Authorized Economic …

able to increase the duration of their trade relationships. Evidence on duration of these relationships at the firm level …

This paper explores the relationship between preferential and multilateral trade liberalization at the sectoral level …. While in some industries, complementary effects between both kinds of trade liberalization are observed, in others no …

Our knowledge of the trade effects of domestic infrastructure is very limited. The reason is twofold. First, data … potential endogeneity problems affecting the relationship between internal infrastructure and trade. In this paper, we overcome …

Modern theoretical and empirical analyses in international trade typically focus on firms as the sole trading actors …. This is consistent with the fact that firms have traditionally accounted for the vast majority of trade and, hence …, examining their behavior allows for fully characterizing trade margins and assessing their determinants. Emerging and rapidly …

accessing digital platforms are more symmetric across gender than traditional trade costs, digital trade platforms can play an … important role in making trade more gender equal. To assess this hypothesis, we combine information on firms' participation in …

implementation of the 2013 Trade Facilitation Agreement would reduce the time to trade by 1.5 days. In that case, processing costs …

Trade facilitation policies intend to simplify administrative processes and accelerate the handling of shipments across … borders. Recent research shows that these policies have substantial effects on trade flows. In this chapter, we discuss what … the existing evidence for trade implies for the provision of transportation services. In addition, we make use of a …