Welfare gains from increasing product variety are an important source of the gains from international trade. Recent … empirical studies have largely focused on measuring the gains from an increased variety of imports. Trade theory, however …, suggests that international trade heavily affects the variety of domestically produced goods as well. To overcome the typical …

Findings from the literature suggest that previous estimates of the variety gains from trade are too small because of …

interventions differ from a tariff, ad valorem representation should be undertaken in numerical trade modelling only with …

This paper proposes estimating causalities in bilateral international trade in simultaneous systems, including domestic … and foreign GDP as well as mutual trade flows. Conventional macroeconomic theory mainly follows partial approaches like … sources and effects of international trade should be seen as an inherently empirical task. …

, both of which show that previous estimates of the ethnic-network elasticity of trade are sensitive to the restrictions …

Many studies have found that international borders represent large barriers to trade. But how do international borders … consider a unique data set of exports from individual U.S. states to foreign countries and combine it with trade flows within … and between U.S. states. After controlling for distance and country size, we find that relative to state-to-state trade …

This paper examines the relationship between trade liberalisation and migration in the case of Mexico. The increasing … bilateral trade between Mexico and the United States after signing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was supposed …: are trade and migration substitutes like the policy-makers had assumed or are they complements? Using monthly data from …

We develop a new analytical framework for both cross-border services trade and services trade through foreign … delivery (mode of delivery) at the firm level, and about the pattern of bilateral trade at the industry level. We examine the … affiliate services sales, we work directly with data on bilateral U.S. trade through affiliates. These data feature more sector …