We show that reducing the probability of a trade war promotes long-term importer-exporter relationships that ensure … trade war. Extending the standard general equilibrium trade model to encompass potential trade wars and relational contracts …

This paper: outlines an algorithm for concording U.S. ten-digit Harmonized System export and import codes over time …

U.S. trade statistics to provide a broad overview of how the margins of trade contribute to variation in U.S. imports …Recent research in international trade emphasizes the importance of firms' extensive margins for understanding overall … patterns of trade as well as how firms respond to specific events such as trade liberalization. In this paper, we use detailed …

attention to the role of firms when discussing international trade. This paper summarizes key differences between trading and … non-trading firms, demonstrates how these differences present a challenge to standard trade models and shows how recent … "heterogeneous-firm" models of international trade address these challenges. We then make use of transaction-level U.S. trade data to …

This paper describes the updating of the NBER trade dataset, which now provides U.S. import and export values to the … year 2001, disaggregated by Harmonized System (HS), Standard International Trade Classification (SITC), and the U … years 1989-2001. Earlier CD-ROMs distributed by the NBER described data on U.S. imports and exports from 1972-1994, and …

We examine US workers' employment and earnings before and after trade liberalization with China. Among workers …

This paper examines the determinants of intra-firm trade in U.S. imports using detailed country-product data. We create … a new measure of product contractibility based on the degree of intermediation in international trade for the product …. We find important roles for the interaction of country and product characteristics in determining intra-firm trade shares …

.S. trade policy that eliminated potential tariff increases on Chinese imports. Industries where the threat of tariff hikes … declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … the number of firms engaged in China-U.S. trade. These results are robust to other potential explanations of the …

, I compare China's export bundle to those of the relatively skill- and capital-abundant members of the OECD as well as to … command a premium relative to its level of development …

Mexico's experience before and after trade liberalization presents a challenge to neoclassical trade theory. Though …