countries and commodities with much more detailed information on trade than on production and consumption. The approach reflects …Traditional weighted-average measures of trade distortions are widely used in analyzing global and regional reforms …. Sensitivity analysis suggests that, for global trade reform, the ease of substitution between tariff lines is much more important …

This paper introduces the first effort to quantitatively document the small arms market by collating field reports and … market is developed and empirically estimated to identify the key determinants of assault rifle prices. Variables which proxy … the effective height of trade barriers for illicit trade are consistently significant in determining weapon price …

the Brazilian states for the years 1995 to 2003. Using international trade data, a foreign market access measure is … computed at the sectoral level, which is exogenous to domestic migration. A higher foreign market access is associated with a … industries, according to their comparative advantage on the world market. However, the observed impact is driven by the strong …

well as the levels of and changes to the trade values, market shares, volumes, and prices for those goods that eventually …This paper introduces a new data set and establishes a set of basic facts and patterns regarding the trade that … countries fight about under World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement. The paper characterizes the scope of products, as …

This paper studies the impact of deep agreements on United Kingdom-European Union trade relations. A standard gravity … model is applied to assess the effect that European Union membership had on the United Kingdom's trade. The paper uses new … information on the content of trade agreements to build a measure of "depth" based on the number of provisions the agreements …

and new analytical frameworks aimed at properly identifying production linkages between and within economies. However …, several important questions remain unaddressed. This paper proposes a new toolkit for value-added accounting of trade flows at … -- including an assessment of the share of trade related to GVCs. The paper shows how different empirical issues require distinct …

This paper provides up-to-date characterization of the association between trade and GDP comovement -- also called the … trade comovement slope -- for 150 countries from 1962 to 2011. The paper shows that trade is significantly linked to more … GDP correlation, either directly through bilateral trade, or indirectly when two countries trade with similar partners …

cooperation can contribute to integrating national markets. Databases on trade in value added, which cover only cross …-border transactions in services, reveal a high and growing share of services in trade in value added across countries and industries … of reciprocal market opening for goods, but this approach has delivered little incremental liberalization. More could be …

quantify the impact of the depth of trade agreements on bilateral cross-border production linkages. The results show that …Preferential trade agreements have become deeper over time, often encompassing policy areas that go beyond traditional … trade policy, such as investment, competition, and intellectual property rights protection. In the literature, a prominent …

This paper uses data on directional trade flows and Regional Trade Agreements (RTA) to i) estimate the effects of RTA … on trade flows and ii) assess the importance of Global Value Chains for these effects. Based on a Difference …-in-Difference identification strategy, we find that RTAs are associated with: (1) an increase in trade within the region, (2) a decrease in inflows …