During the final years of the Multifiber Agreement the US imposed strict import quotas on Chinese apparel while it gave African apparel duty- and quota-free access. The combination of these policies led to a rapid but ephemeral rise of African exports. In this paper we argue that the African...

In this study we explore a newly available unique dataset that links China's international trade transactions to a comprehensive firm-level data in China's manufacturing sector, and establish a number of interesting stylized facts linking firms' key economic performance to their...

This paper investigates the impact of US Export-Import Bank (EXIM) on US exports particularly in the wake of international competition from foreign national export credit agencies (ECAs). We employ a gravity framework on a country-industry-year-level panel dataset that matches EXIM...