This dissertation exploits fine-grained trade data to study how the evasion of trade sanctions may be detected, which factors determine the utilisation of free trade agreements, and how to improve the quality of intertemporal product-level trade data.

Militärische Interventionen werden zunehmend durch Sanktionen ersetzt, um außenpolitische Ziele der globalen Sicherheit zu verfolgen. Beide Mittel verursachen ökonomische Kosten. Anhand des Gravitationsmodells des internationalen Handels und eines allgemeinen Gleichgewichtsmodells...

Governments have at their disposal many economic instruments to promote national security, such as sanctions, foreign aid, international trade, international finance and laws blocking funds for international terrorism. This book examines the use of theses economic policies and addresses how best...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and List of Tables -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Trade Structure, Threat Effectiveness, and "Democratic Trade Peace -- 3. The Empirical Record -- 4. American Threats and U.S.-China Negotiations over Most-Favored-Nation Status and Market Access -- 5. U.S.-Japan...

The trade wars that have been waged by the USA since early 2017 are an upshot of the structural problems accumulated inside the global trade and economic system. Firstly, the benefits of globalization are distributed unevenly between the developed and developing countries, and between skilled...