This paper investigates the asymmetries in trade spillovers from sector-specific technology shocks in China to selected … euro area countries. We use a Ricardian-gravity trade model to estimate sectoral competitiveness in individual euro area … different specialization patterns. This raises the question of the distribution of gains and losses from external trade shocks …

trade, while accommodating asymmetries in trade flows. A new equation for the proportion of exporting firms takes a gravity … multilateral resistance terms with which to capture the comparative static effects of changes in trade costs. For isolated … bilateral changes in trade frictions, multilateral resistance effects are small for most countries. However, if all countries …

model explains tourism flows better than goods trade for equivalent specifications. The elasticity of tourism with respect … to GDP of the origin (importing) country is lower than for goods trade. Tourism flows respond strongly to changes in the …, bilateral trade) due to the larger share of business travel. Tourism to small islands is less sensitive to changes in the …

This paper provides the first comprehensive empirical analysis of agricultural trade using a gravity model. The data … set covers bilateral trade in agricultural goods for 152 countries over the periods 1990-93 and 1999-2002. The estimations … geographic determinants of trade. However, some developing regions that are often thought to be the main victims of industrial …

In March 2017, the IMF published an upgrade of its Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS) dataset. This paper documents … the new methodology that has been developed to estimate missing observations of bilateral trade statistics on a monthly … trade statistics by partner country reported at different times and frequencies. In this paper we describe the new …