Contrary to the recent literature that concludes that the GATT/WTO has been completely ineffective in promoting world … has, however, been uneven. GATT/WTO membership for industrial countries has been associated with a large increase in … imports estimated at about 44 percent of world trade. The same has not been true for developing country members, although …

This paper generalizes the gross exports accounting framework, initially proposed by Koopman, Wang, and Wei (2014) for … a country's aggregate exports, to one at the sector, bilateral, and bilateral-sector levels. Such a generalization … requires a conceptual distinction between value added exports by forward and backward industrial linkages, and a non …

Continental trade blocs are emerging in many parts of the world almost in tandem. If trade blocs are required to … reduction of trade barriers against non-member countries. That may not be politically feasible. On the other hand, in a world of …

biological desire for a marriage partner is strong. Empirically, we show that within China, those regions with a faster increase …

China's high corporate savings rate is commonly claimed to be a key driver for the country's large current account …

This paper provides both a conceptual framework for decomposing a country's gross exports into value-added components …

contribution is to propose a structural explanation for this divergence based on a lengthening of world production chains since …