efficiency gains from trade liberalization in economies with a strong presence of SOEs? Using a new dataset of Vietnamese firms … characterizing SOEs operations in a model of trade with firm heterogeneity and show that they can hinder the selection effects of … openness and tame the aggregate productivity gains from trade. We empirically test these predictions analyzing the response of …

efficiency gains from trade liberalization in economies with a strong presence of SOEs? Using a new dataset of Vietnamese firms … characterizing SOEs operations in a model of trade with firm heterogeneity and show that they can hinder the selection effects of … openness and tame the aggregate productivity gains from trade. We empirically test these predictions analyzing the response of …

We use 6-digit bilateral trade data to document the effect of WTO/GATT membership on the extensive and intensive … product margins of trade. We construct gravity equations for the two product margins motivated by Chaney (2008). The empirical … results show that standard gravity variables provide good explanatory power for bilateral trade on both margins. Importantly …

This chapter surveys the literature on international trade and the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in … the global economy. The discussion is organized around the major questions in the field. How does openness to trade affect … support the major arguments for and against the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS …

Many computable general equilibrium models have been set up recently, in order to assess the benefits of trade …

In 2019 and the early months of 2020, global trade faced two major albeit very different shocks, namely the United … States-China trade war and the cascading response of the countries around the world to the COVID-19 pandemic. While the … broad swathe of tradeables that made a global trade environment highly unpredictable, the latter has seen entire production …

century. Secondly, in one area of economic activity - trade in government procurement markets - the revised WTO Agreement on … Government Procurement (GPA) is emerging as a multi-dimensional tool of trade, governance and development. The thesis of this …

. This paper provides a detailed analysis of trade flows between the two emerging economies and investigates on which type of … trade impact of those measures that were imposed during the Great Recession, using monthly data on exports from China to … India. The use of monthly data is relatively new to the literature and allows a detailed examination of the trade impact of …