exogenous to Bangladesh, we instrument export demand with OECD imports to ensure identification. We compare estimates of the …-run, general-equilibrium neoclassical trade theory. As in other studies, we find that the export shock was localized both in terms …This paper studies how a positive export shock - the sharp increase in garment-sector exports that began at the end of …

We review theoretical and empirical work on the economic effects of the United States and China trade relations during … economic effects on different outcomes. We then focus on the recent U.S.-China trade war. We discuss methods used to evaluate … its effects, describe its economic effects, and analyze if this increase in trade protectionism reverted the effects of …

Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of …

global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and …This paper unpacks the role of the domestic content of imports as a novel source of policy interdependence along the … pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric ways with respect to (i) the nature of unilaterally optimal trade …

local institutional knowledge. We posit that a portion of the fixed costs of entering a specific export market can be used … toward costs of acquiring imports from that same market, and vice versa. Using dis-aggregated transactions data for Chinese … scope. Using a structural model, we estimate that the simultaneous export and import in a given country reduces export and …

increase in apparel export prices, consistent with trade theory, and that the change estimated with a cross-section IV approach … language of trade theory, are the benefits from exporting industry specific or factor specific? To analyze this question, we …-female wage gap surrounding an exogenous policy change in the European Union that corresponded to a discrete increase in apparel-export …

I study how people understand and reason about trade and which factors shape their views on trade policy. I design and … run large-scale surveys and experiments in the U.S. to elicit respondents' knowledge and understanding of trade. I also … ask about their perceived economic gains and distributional impacts from trade and their views on trade restrictions and …

escalation. Yet neoclassical trade theory - and modern Ricardian trade models, in particular - predict that welfare … tariff escalation increasing in the extent of downstream returns to scale. A quantitative evaluation of the US-China trade …

We study optimal dynamic trade policies in an Eaton-Kortum model with technology diffusion through trade. The process … of innovation and diffusion is one in which new ideas are combined with insights from others. Trade thus affects … endowments, and other alterations to trade patterns that affect the degree and quality of diffusion. We provide explicit formulas …