Are Temporary Trade Barriers (TTBs) introduced for strategic reasons? To answer this question, we construct a novel …

This paper examines the effect of international trade on corporate market power in emerging market economies and … data by sector and aggregate indicators of international trade for the period 2000-17. Greater trade liberalization and … trade integration are associated with significant declines in market power, with the effect being more pronounced for firms …

and macro studies - to understand the impact of trade agreements in the period 1983-1995 for 104 country pairs. The key … advantage of using SCM to address selection bias - one of the persisting issues in trade literature - is that it allows the …-invariant unobserved country characteristics. Using SCM approach, the paper finds that trade agreements can generate substantial gains, on …

value added in a value chain require efforts to reduce trade barriers, enhance infrastructure, foster human capital …

This paper investigates the effect of timeliness in accessing the intermediate inputs on the trade pattern. In …

The paper employs synthetic control method (SCM) to determine the impact of trade agreements for 64 Latin American … country pairs in the period 1989-1996. The results suggest that trade agreements have markedly boosted exports in Latin …. The export gains due to trade agreements are lower than the world average comprising 104 country pairs in the period 1983-1995 …

general equilibrium (CGE) trade model calibrated to 165 countries. The first scenario estimates effects from potential U … to capture dynamic effects, such as those stemming from trade policy uncertainty. More generally, our results both …

trade integration, which induced domestic producers to lower prices and increase their efficiency. Our findings suggest an … additional channel through which rising trade tensions and sluggish productivity could threaten real investment growth going …

While standard demand factors perform well in predicting historical trade patterns, they fail conspicuously in 2020 … demand model in 2020 vary systematically with the health preparedness of trade partners, suggesting that pandemic …-response policies have international spillovers. Bilateral product-level data covering about 95 percent of global goods trade reveals …

If sectoral trade flows obey structural gravity, countries' bilateral trade imbalances are the result of macro trade … imbalances, “triangular trade”, or pairwise asymmetric trade barriers. Using data for 40 major economies and the Rest of the … World, we show that large and pervasive asymmetries in trade barriers are required to account for most of the observed …