challenge the view that greater openness to trade automatically leads to improved firm entry institutions. My model enables … calculating business entry impediments whereas lobbying game produces structural estimates of the counterfactual levels of trade … extensive margin and asymmetries in technology and trade costs. Importantly, the model demonstrates that startling differences …

This paper uses a theory-based measure of productivity-based comparative advantage to examine the trade performance of … integral part of "Factory Asia." Moreover, the results from a quantitative model of trade show that revealed productivity …

impact on Armenia of a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with the EU, as well as further regional or … multilateral trade policy commitments. They find that a DCFTA with the EU will likely result in substantial gains to Armenia, but … are: (i) trade facilitation and reduction in border costs; (ii) services liberalization; and (iii) standards harmonization …

production networks, although large part of their (low) trade is due to value added related upstream activities, and the … and trade, with possible positive consequences on their economic development …

Advantage Index and the Trade Complementarity index on data collected from the United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics and … accessed via World Integrated Trade Solution (2018), the study found that there is a scope for Nigeria to competitively export …

How trade shocks emanating from a low-wage country affect the productivity of manufacturing plants in other low … channels through which trade shocks can affect plant productivity. Although import competition from high-wage countries has no …

The entry of China into world markets has been one of the strongest recent shocks to world trade and advanced countries … on international trade, we also show that the price effects of Chinese competitive pressures are stronger in less …