Perceptions of international trade barriers are important in the decision of firms to export.This study makes an …

This paper analyses empirical evidences of growing volume of Intra-industry trade in India during 1975 …-1992. Quantitative evidences show that trade in manufactured products has increased with rapid industrialisation leading to genesis of … intra-industry trade. Measures of Grubel-Lloyd Intra-industry trade indexes for India’s trade with the world, the Asian …

Recent empirical research in international trade emphasizes the role of the extensive and intensive margin as … determinants of countries’ trade patterns. Considering the case of Austria, the present paper uses detailed bilateral export data …

estimate the impact of national borders on global and regional trade flows. Results show that difficulties faced by developing … still have an influence on trade patterns, they do not seem to explain an important part of the border effect. Last, our … expected ranking between their respective trade impact. …

, with a special emphasis on trade in intermediate products. The research adopts a statistical approach for both its … theory. The empirical part applies Exploratory Data Analysis on trade and production data from OECD’s Inter-Country Input … downstream competitiveness. It is shown that One-Way and Two-Way trade indices capture different aspects of trade competitiveness …

undermined the profitability of long-distance trade in cheaper textiles. That, in turn forced most textile manufacturers … dependent on long-distance trade, and especially those who had operated as price-takers, to re-orient their export … transportation, transactions costs fell, and fell enough to make long-distance trade in cheaper textiles once more profitable; and …

In recent years empirical studies offer clear evidence on the increasing importance of intra-industry trade in presence … quality levels. In the new trade theory and in the neoclassical literature there is not a well-established methodology to … estimate good's quality in international trade; this contribution presents different methodologies starting from a review of …

trade. Bernard, Jensen, Redding, and Schott (2007) discuss how this can be decomposed into an effect due to the number of … be used to derive new estimates of how distance affects fixed and variable trade costs and how these two costs combine to … generate the distance effect on trade. …