Was the collapse of world trade between 1928 and 1937 caused by higher transport costs, increased protectionism or the …

environments. Besides traditional tariffs, exporting firms need to comply with regulatory non-tariff measures (NTMs) in the form of … challenge to MNEs' subsidiaries' activity and performance than tariffs do. High-tech manufacturing subsidiaries of foreign MNEs …

$10.9 billion trade potential, India’s export potential accounts for US$7.9 billion and import potential US$3 billion …

We carry out an indirect inference test of two versions of a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of world trade …. One of these, the ‘classical’ model,is well-known as the Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model of world trade, in which … countries trade homogeneous products in world markets and produce according to their comparative advantage as determined by …

the analysis of Arkolakis, Costinot and Rodriguez-Clare (2012) to encompass revenue-generating import tariffs. Our formula …We derive a simple equation for the welfare gains from trade when tariffs are liberalized or iceberg trade costs fall … countries with relatively high status quo tariffs, our formula predicts 30-60\% larger gains from trade than the icebergs only …

different sets of measures are considered, from a basic set of measures to ensure compliance with the World Trade Organization …

measure to evaluate processing frictions is the time it takes to import. In this paper we translate import processing times to … buffer processing shocks. Based on this theory, we employ detailed data on import processing dates, instrumental variables …, and firm-product-origin level import data to estimate import processing costs. Evaluated at the median, import processing …