brought about by trade liberalization. …

" processing trade supervision program that lowered the cost of processing trade but left ordinary trade costs unchanged. We find … results highlight that processing trade not only leads goods to be "Made in China," but also "Created in China." …

investigates how global value chain-related trade affects the export performance of manufacturing firms in South Africa. In … results confirm that global value chain-related trade is associated with a higher productivity premium compared with … traditional trade. However, within the categories of exporters, only the firms that trade in global value chain-related products …

This paper examines international trade in tainted food and other low-quality products. Wefirst find that for a large … class of environments, free trade is the trading system that conveysthe highest incentives to produce non-tainted high …-quality goods by foreign exporters.However, free trade cannot prevent the export of tainted products, and the condition fortainting …

across markets, by exploiting the quasi experimental design of the nearly total collapse of domestic trade by rail in January … a 11% to 18% reduction in price dispersion across markets. Geographical reach of trade varies by crop, most likely …

How much does a nation spend on resources to 'grease the wheels of trade'? To examine this question the Dutch economy … seventeenth century from successes in long distance trade, shipping and financial innovations. Despite its historical background … remain important, suggesting that face-to-face trade remains an important element of modern transactions. In contrast to the …

We empirically investigate the responsiveness of international trade to the stringency of environmental regulation … equilibrium model of trade and pollution nesting the pollution haven motive for trade with the factor endowment motive. We analyze … show that trade patterns in ‘dirty’ commodities are jointly determined by relative factor endowments and environmental …

This paper studies the intangible costs of international trade by extending the basic gravity equation with measures of … cultural and institutional distance, and institutional quality. Analyzing a sample of bilateral trade flows between 92 … countries in 1999, we find that institutional distance has a negative effect on bilateral trade, presumably because the …

data from WIOD (the 2013 release) with, regional economic accounts, and interregional trade estimates developed by PBL … available to the research community, from the Dutch government open data website. In this project, both a regional trade … intentionally on the regionalization of both trade and the regional use and supply of products by different economic actors. The …