Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to … quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel … between 1.6 and 2.4 depending upon weighting. This provides an important contribution to the trade literature of Ricardian …

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 …

in goods trade in the 90ies. An increase in the market concentration exhibits a positive impact on bilateral exports … hypotheses. As a result, goods trade between the member countries was polarised in terms of a relative disintegration. …

) has been studied with an intra-industry trade Applied General Equilibrium (AGE) model with intersectoral capital mobility …

PECS reverses the negative impact of strict ROOs on intermediate trade which turns positive as a consequence of introducing …

-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different implications of the growing importance of trade in intermediate inputs. The first … chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … and estimates the importance of international trade in intermediate inputs and internationally mobile capital for the …

so-called extensive product margin of trade. We focus on the overlap of products exported or imported between any pair of …

The extensive margin of bilateral trade exhibits a high level of persistence that cannot be explained by geography or … trade policy. We combine a heterogeneous firms model of international trade with bounded productivity with features from the … trade agreement, and shared currency), only sharing a common currency retains a significant effect on whether two countries …

This paper shows that regional trade integration shifts the burden of the exchange rate adjustment towards the less … integrated trading partners. Thus, they bear the cost of trade balance expansion, while competitive exchange rate moves vis …-a-vis RTA trading partners result in no expansion or deterioration of the overall trade balance. First, using the data on 138 …

Gravity equations have been used for more than 50 years to estimate ex post the partial effects of trade costs on … international trade flows, and the well-known - and traditionally presumed exogenous - "trade-cost elasticity" plays a central role … in computing general equilibrium trade-flow and welfare effects of trade-cost changes. This paper addresses theoretically …