Based on recent development of international economics, this paper aims to evaluate in what extent privatestandards impact trade, and more precisely trade of French agri‐food firms.Our paper explores an original "handmade" database identifying French agri‐food firms which are certified...

This study uses a unique firm-level dataset to examine how falling trade costs from 1993-2001 affected entry, exit, productivity, and exporting in the Korean manufacturing sector. We verify many of the predictions of recent heterogeneous-firm models of international trade. For example, falling...

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This article offers a new reading ofintra-European trade based on recent developments innew international economics (Melitz, 2003; Chaney,2008). These models take the heterogeneity of firmsinto account and offer a micro-economic analysis ofthe process of selection at work for firms enteringmarkets....

First chapter aims to quantify the role of trade in capital goods incross country income differences. I construct a multi-country general equilibriummodel of trade along the line of Eaton and Kortum (2002) and Alvarezand Lucas (2007) and introduce trade in capital goods and capital...

Since 2004 there has been a sharp decrease in border protection for the EU rice industry. Because the EU grants trade preferences to a considerable number of rice exporting developing countries, the reform implied preference erosion as well. By addressing the impact of preference erosion on...

Over the time a large number of reciprocal preferential trade agreements (RTAs) have been concluded among countries. Recently many studies have used gravity equations in order to estimate the effect of RTAs on trade flows between partners. These studies report very different estimates since they...

This paper aims to assess the role of non-tariff barriers (NTBs) for new member states (NMSs) exports in the agri-food sector, in the period just before the EU accession actually stepped into force. The assessment is based on a detailed sectoral gravity model, which was enhanced with inclusion...

Since the Single European Market (SEM) has been established, the free movement of goods has been facilitated not only by removing border formalities, but also by the technical harmonisation of national legislation in each member state. For the agri-food sector a particular concern is to...

The paper presents an extended gravity equation application for the global trade with ethanol.The background and different attempts for a theoretical foundation of the standard approachare discussed. The econometric work takes regional integration schemes into account, as wellas the influence of...