-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained chapters which deal with the following topics in empirical international trade and …, trade, and informal employment as illustrated by the maquiladora industry in Mexico (chapter 4), the interaction between … migration and trade and their effects on unemployment (chapter 5), and the dynamics of democracy and income chapter 6). …

The recent literature on firm-to-firm trade has documented salient empirical regularities of the buyer-seller network … assessment of theoretical models that aim to identify the determinants of firm-to-firm networks in international trade. …

-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different implications of the growing importance of trade in intermediate inputs. The first … chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … and estimates the importance of international trade in intermediate inputs and internationally mobile capital for the …

one or more aspects of international trade and factor movements, including trade in goods, trade in value added …, international movement of labor and capital, and trade in risk. All chapters aim to contribute to our understanding of the economic … of the pattern of trade, factor flows, and production, as well as the role of barriers to the international exchange of …

Over the last 20 years the trade literature repeatedly documented the trade-reducing effects of inter- and intra … underlying political borders. However, when observed border effects are not caused by political trade barriers, why should their … "border effect" in the absence of a border. Thereby, the finding that trade between East- and West-Japan is 23.1% - 51 …

trade, while accommodating asymmetries in trade flows. A new equation for the proportion of exporting firms takes a gravity … multilateral resistance terms with which to capture the comparative static effects of changes in trade costs. For isolated … bilateral changes in trade frictions, multilateral resistance effects are small for most countries. However, if all countries …

In this paper, we estimate a gravity equation properly accounting for omitted exporter and importer's overall trade … multilateral trade resistance terms in the estimation of a gravity equation introduces important biases in the results, although … done. An application to the calculation of trade potentials in the Euromed region (Southern and Eastern Mediterranean …

This paper finds that firms' trade credit, the financing provided by upstream input suppliers along the supply chain … and Central Asian countries between 2001 and 2007, we employ international trade cost shocks to identify the causal … impacts of trade credit on firms' exportation. We find that when trade costs decline, firms with less trade credit increase …

theoretical perspective, the correlation could be either zero, as assumed by standard international trade models, or negative if …

, interconnections among countries can no longer be adequately assessed through standard bilateral gross trade flows and new methods of … analysis are needed. In this paper, we compute measures of network analysis and apply visualisation tools to value added trade … (value added flows). The analysis is extended beyond total trade flows to discuss the distinct roles of goods and services in …