separate country data files giving monthly trade performance for both the import and export sides throughout the crisis. We use …% by 1933, and placing Germany close to autarchy. In the 1998 Asian crisis trade impacts were much smaller since export …This paper documents and compares the trade performance of the major Asian economies both during and following the 2008 …

This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the … evolution of the trade and environment issue. Developments seem likely to be driven in the next few years as much by factors … outside the GATT/WTO as well as within it, as new global environmental arrangements, some with potentially large trade …

A gravity model is used to assess the separate effects of exchange rate volatility and currency unions on international … trade. The panel data set used includes bilateral observations for five years spanning 1970 through 1990 for 186 countries … same currency. I find a large positive effect of a currency union on international trade, and a small negative effect of …

dampening effect on trade volatility …I examine the hypothesis that membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the General … Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) has increased the stability and predictability of trade flows. I use a large data set …