international markets. This framework is then applied to analyse the trade specialisation of Argentina, Brazil and Chile (ABC …

This paper quantifies the importance of different determinants of trade at the industry level using a sample of 54 OECD … quantify the impact that trading partners’ factor endowments and policies have on bilateral trade, and to analyse the effect of … tariffs on the volume and composition of trade. We find that distance, common language, common border and regional trade …

This paper provides a detailed description of recent research to re-estimate and re-specify the international trade … volume and price equations that are used in the OECD Economics Department to analyse and project international trade … affecting export performance, import penetration and trade prices presented for 41 countries, including countries that have …

Gravity models are used to explore the determinants of trade, making use of fixed effect linear estimators and a … Poisson estimator (as in Santos Silva and Tenreyro, 2006) with fixed effects. Beyond usual determinants of trade such as GDP …, distance, contiguity, free trade areas and language, this analysis mainly focuses on the role of product market regulation …

size and distance-to-market are also found to matter for firm size outcomes, consistent with the new trade literature …

that of the elasticity of trade to distance.<P>Les pays développés ont-ils échappé à la malédiction de la distance ?<BR …

Several studies have reported a large negative effect of national borders on the volume of trade. We provide new … distance, the negative effect of international borders on goods trade in a standard gravity equation is lowered by around 15 …%. Time-related trade costs account for an additional 10% reduction in the border effect. Overall these results point to the …

draws global trade and specialisation scenarios up to 2060, taking into account international spillovers. The paper … highlights that comparative advantage in terms of factor endowments matters for trade specialisation, although framework and … trade policies also play a role. For instance, tariffs on intermediate inputs are found to adversely affect trade with this …