technologies offers an opportunity to reduce fraud and increase government revenue. Using data on intra-EU and world trade … transactions, we present evidence that (i) cross-border trade tax fraud is non-trivial and prevalent in many countries; (ii) such … digitalization from reducing trade fraud could be substantial. Halving the distance to the digitalization frontier could raise …

could undermine LAC's competitive advantage in some export markets. In this context, reduction of trade barriers and further …

expenditures with terms of trade in oil exporting countries, and (ii) improve non-resource primary balances in all RRC, especially … during terms of trade upturns. The rules’ design matters. Addressing the procyclicality of public expenditures with terms-of-trade …

international value chains reduces the exchange rate elasticity of gross trade volumes. This result holds both in the short and … larger gross trade flows, relative to GDP, which tends to amplify the effect of exchange rate movements. Overall, combining …

changes in these countries' sectoral export shares during 1970-2010. We build a multisector Ricardian trade model which allows …

We present and discuss a set of indicators to help assess countries' trade policies. The indicators relate to three … policy areas - trade in goods, trade in services, and FDI. Given concerns about the direction of global trade policy, we also … propose a simple approach to present the multidimensional aspects of trade policy that, by shedding light on relative openness …

Global trade growth has slowed since 2012 relative both to its strong historical performance and to overall economic … slowdown in trade using a reduced form and a structural approach. Both analytical investigations suggest that the overall … weakness in economic activity, particularly investment, has been the primary restraint on trade growth, accounting for over 80 …