sizes around the world. The case of pallets is examined to illustrate the impact of multiplicity of standards on trade costs …. We select this case because pallets are used all around the world, pallet standards are not too sophisticated, and data … because of the lack of rental and exchange pallet markets. To mitigate the costs of this multiplicity of standards, the World …

Since the Global Financial Crisis, world trade growth has been subdued and lagging slightly behind growth of gross … trade-income relationship, and then investigates its consequences for economic growth. On the demand side, sluggish world …

commodities and differentiated products. This methodology is applied to six developing countries, one from each World Bank region …

equilibrium fictions. In the framework of this paper, technology, contacts with the outside world, and changes in power and wealth …

This paper focuses on the sluggish growth of world trade relative to income growth in recent years. The analysis uses …

income. Moreover, the rate of change of trade costs is largely unfavorable to the developing world: trade costs are falling …

, despite well-known deficiencies. This paper develops and applies optimal aggregators for the real-world case of multiple …

world differently. Using a combination of static and dynamic panel data analysis, we find that while increases in trade per …