Credit rationing in the presence of asset inequality affects production and trade pattern in this paper, but not in the … more equal asset distribution may contract the output of the credit intensive sector as redistribution to the bottom of the … out the possibility that an economy with relatively equal distribution of asset ownership may import capital or credit …

There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household … economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant …

There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household … economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant …

This study estimates the effect of trade facilitation measures implementation on trade costs in Asia and the Pacific … using data from the United Nations Global Survey on Trade Facilitation and Paperless Trade Implementation. Impact of … different sets of measures are considered, from a basic set of measures to ensure compliance with the World Trade Organization …

Recent work suggests the patterns of international trade may be distorted because of information frictions. Little is … known, however, about how advancements in information communication technology (ICT) affect trade patterns. The goal of our … paper is to analyze how and why the adoption of such technology affects bilateral trade flows. Our context is the adoption …

We develop a heterogeneous-firms model with trade in goods, labor mobility and credit constraints due to moral hazard … trade liberalization. While the former leads to more dispersion of economic activity across space, the latter tends to drive … of economic activity with information on the access to credit and the dependence on external finance. Our estimates for …

The business literature suggests that exporters either use trade intermediaries or own foreign sales representations …. Standard trade models are silent about this choice. We develop a model where producers differ with respect to competitive … advantage and where trade intermediaries arise endogenously. Intermediaries allow producers to access a foreign market at lower …

We carry out an indirect inference test of two versions of a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of world trade …. One of these, the ‘classical’ model,is well-known as the Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model of world trade, in which … countries trade homogeneous products in world markets and produce according to their comparative advantage as determined by …

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are increasingly dealing with challenges shaped by the new geopolitical and trade … technical barriers to trade (TBTs) and sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures. Although trade costs associated with these … international network of subsidiaries, and those that are located in trading partners with deep preferential trade agreements can …

LMU Munich in February 2019. It consists of four selfcontained chapters that empirically investigate different trade … dampening phenomena using gravity analysis. The first two chapters examine the effects of anti-dumping duties on trade …, addressing endogeneity concerns linked to trade policy. In particular, Chapter 1 exploits the EU enlargement of 2004 as a natural …