Was the collapse of world trade between 1928 and 1937 caused by higher transport costs, increased protectionism or the … equilibrium effects of bilateral distance, international borders, and the payment system on trade. My results suggest that had … average tari and non-tari trade barriers remained at their 1928 level, total international trade would have been 64.6 % higher …

countries despite their very different levels of development. We then study how firm performance and trade policy affect pricing … more to market. More importantly, we identify significant effects of trade-policy instruments on pricing-to- market: Higher … import tariffs on a destination market are associated with less pricing-to-market, whereas non-tariff measures are associated …

We propose a simple method to identify the effects of unilateral and non-discriminatory trade policies on bilateral … trade within a theoretically-consistent empirical gravity model. Specifically, we argue that structural gravity estimations … should be performed with data that include not only international trade flows but also intra-national trade flows. The use of …

for the extensive margins of trade, particularly the extensive margin of number of products exported, while the time …-series variation in aggregate exports is mostly accounted for by the intensive margin of trade, and in particular by the growth of …

-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). …

This paper on Trade Agreements within SSA, is an assessment of the ex post bilateral trade effect of the European Union …-African Caribbean Pacific Preferential Trade Agreement (EU-ACP PTA) and sub-regional regional trade agreements (RTAs) on bilateral trade … involving SSA countries. The main objective is to find out if EU trade preferences and regional trade agreements within SSA had …

In this paper we study how international trade in goods and services interact at the firm level. Using a rich dataset … liberalization of service trade has direct and sizable effects on goods trade and vice-versa. Moreover, sourcing goods and services …

This paper estimates the effects of trade liberalization on plant productivity. In contrast to previous studies, we … distinguish between productivity gains arising from lower tariffs on final goods relative to lower tariffs on intermediate inputs …. Lower output tariffs can produce productivity gains by inducing tougher import competition whereas cheaper imported inputs …

was offset by the concurrent appreciation of the US dollar and trace the source of the appreciation back to US trade … policy itself. The dollar response to trade policy uncertainty (TPU) is key to assessing the overall impact of trade policies … featuring financial frictions, which accounts for uncertainty regarding future trade policy. In the model, an increase in TPU …