A structural gravity model is used to estimate barriers to services trade across many sectors, countries and time …

Timely deliveries have become more important in international trade in the recent decades, mostly because of the spread … of international production fragmentation. This paper provides empirical evidence on the cost of time in trade by looking … at how faster trade within the European Union (EU) contributed to the trade expansion with new EU members after the …

Sundaram and Richardson employ a difference-in-difference, gravity-equation approach to quantifying the trade impact of …

looks at the consequences of sanctions for bilateral trade values between 1987 and 2005. In order to quantify the direct … effects of sanctions on the trade flows between countries I use PPML as well as several other econometric specifications to … include intra-national as well as international trade flows, to reduce the endogeneity bias of trade policy instruments. The …

This paper reconsiders the Canada-US border's effect on trade. We first test whether findings of McCallum (1995) and … Helliwell (1995)--that the border substantially decreases trade--change when different, better, data are used. We find that the … trade has been completely liberalized for several decades. We find a higher border effect for these freely traded goods …

The issues of zero trade observations and the validity of the log linear transformation of the gravity equation have …. Analysis was based on a dataset of Africa's fish exports to the European Union between 2007 and 2012, which contains about 63 …% zero trade observations. Our results from the robustness checks are in favour of only the Multinomial Poisson Maximum …

Sub-Saharan Africa's declining importance in global trade is primarily due to its inability to remain competitive in …) higher. External protection against Africa has not played an important role in this decline, in fact, OECD trade preferences … international markets. If Africa merely retained its 1962-1964 shares for major products its exports would now be 75% ($11 billion …

-discriminatory trade policies within the same comprehensive, and theoretically-consistent econometric specification. Our recommendations …

This paper examines the impacts of the Japan-Mexico EPA on bilateral trade by using two different types of information …, trade statistics and the EPA utilization rate. Using trade data, we found that Japan’s exports of built-up cars, auto parts …