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 …

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 …

There are two contrasting views of pre-19th century trade and globalization. First there are the world history scholars …

models explaining good and service trade. …

significance of Indigenous agency in trade. …

investigation, I build a multi-country trade model with endogenous adoption of a new transportation technology that is consistent … future usage, adoption costs, and trade with the United States, the first and largest user of containerization. …

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 …