We quantify the effect of container technology on transport costs and trade by estimating the modal choice between … containerization and breakbulk shipping using micro-level trade data. The model is motivated by novel facts that relate container usage … to shipment, destination and firm characteristics. We find container transport to have a higher first-mile cost and a …

rapid increase in the share of China in world trade. As the world is taking the full measure of this phenomenon, tensions … therefore provides an assessment of China’s “natural” place in the world economy based on a new set of trade integration … indicators. These indicators are used as a benchmark in order to examine whether China’s share in international trade is …

The rise of China as an economic and political driver of the global economy is likely to be one of the defining moments … global order that has held sway for over 60 years. As such, China is beginning to reshape the world, presaging a new phase of … globalization: a global-Asian era. This new era is likely to be distinct from any of the earlier phases of globalization and China …

strong though not definitive evidence of an ideological realignment in trade-exposed local labor markets that commences prior … to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …, we find that trade exposed electoral districts simultaneously exhibit growing ideological polarization in some domains …

of understanding the connections between trade and labor in both scholarship and practice, and as such seeks to support … influxes as exogenous phenomena, as opposed to effects of law and policy choices made by government actors in trade, investment …

models explaining good and service trade. …

significance of Indigenous agency in trade. …

developing countries and especially the least developed among them secure a share in the growth in international trade … diversify production, linking to the Global Value Chains and developing adequate infra-structures facilitating digital trade as … overcoming some of these issues through various programs, all geared towards trade capacity building. It is argued that the work …

. Participation of emerging economies in world trade and longer-distance trade between countries contribute to this usage increase …