The past decades witnessed big changes in international trade with the rise of global value chains. Some countries … stability, liberal trade policies, foreign direct investment inflows and domestic industrial capacity are very important in …

costs and reduced waiting times at border crossings, reducing the urgency of progress on trade facilitation. Meanwhile … computable general equilibrium framework indicates that even a relatively modest reduction in trade costs can yield significant …The sharp decline in trade volume and value during the current economic crisis has contributed to lower transportation …

Some studies are skeptical whether further investment is productive and trade liberalization is promising for SSA … dynamic links between investment, trade and income growth in SSA economies targeting at addressing the question: how the … impact flows from investment-GDP-trade openness-investment besides the twin feedbacks between GDP growth and growths of …

A basic assumption of the gravity equation of international trade is that increasing trade costs lower exports …. Butintuition and theory imply that a high export volume lowers bilateral trade costs as well, because a fixed cost intensivetrade … sector probably bears lower average costs with more trade. In this case, standard gravity estimation might bebiased due to …

A basic assumption of the gravity equation of international trade is that increasing trade costs lower exports. But … intuition and theory imply that a high export volume lowers bilateral trade costs as well, because a fixed cost intensive trade … sector probably bears lower average costs with more trade. In this case, standard gravity estimation might be biased due to …

the probability of recording new flows. Growth in emerging countries ́exports at the extensive margin of trade has been …

We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … firms experience productivity gains from reducing input tariffs if trade intermediation of foreign inputs within their …

obtain reliable partial equilibrium estimates of the effects of bilateral and non-discriminatory trade policies within the …

-discriminatory trade policies within the same comprehensive, and theoretically-consistent econometric specification. Our recommendations …