imports have risen by almost twice that rate. China has become the world's largest importer of agricultural products and the … first or second largest destination for many of the world's top agricultural exporters such as the US, Brazil, Australia …

World trade evolves at two margins. Where a bilateral trading relationship already exists it may increase through time … have not traded with each other in the past (extensive margin). We provide an empirical dissection of post-World …-War-II growth in manufacturing world trade along these two margins. We propose a corner-solutions-versionʺ of the gravity model to …

World trade evolves at two margins. Where a bilateral trading relationship already exists it may increase through time … have not traded with each other in the past (extensive margin). We provide an empirical dissection of post-World-War- II … growth in manufacturing world trade along these two margins. We propose a "cornersolutions- version"of the gravity model to …