Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) has increased the stability and predictability of trade flows. I use a large data set … covering annual bilateral trade flows between over 175 countries between 1950 and 1999, and estimate the effect of GATT …/WTO membership on the coefficient of variation in trade computed over 25-year samples, controlling for a number of factors. I also …

and a large panel data set covering over fifty years and 175 countries. Despite an extensive search, I am basically unable …This Paper estimates the effect on international trade of multilateral trade agreements: the World Trade Organization … (GSP) extended from rich countries to developing countries. I use a standard ‘gravity’ model of bilateral merchandise trade …

and a large panel data set covering over 50 years and 175 countries. An extensive search reveals little evidence that …This paper estimates the effect on international trade of multilateral trade agreements: the World Trade Organization … (GSP) extended from rich countries to developing countries. I use a standard "gravity" model of bilateral merchandise trade …

-section of data covering 22 large exporters and 200 import destinations. Bilateral exports rise by approximately 6-10% for each …

during cyclic downturns; if anything, they tend to fall. I document this new stylized fact with a wide panel of data, using a …. While that may have been a valid description of the data before the Second World War, it is no longer accurate. In the post …

One reason why countries service their external debts is the fear that default might lead to shrinkage of international …

market data and an event-study approach, using a daily data set covering a thousand announcements spanning over eighty … stock markets, adjusted for international stock market movements. We then link these excess returns to features of the RTA …

‘gravity’ model of bilateral merchandise trade and a large panel data set covering over 50 years and 175 countries. My results …This Paper estimates the effect on international trade of three multilateral organizations intended to increase trade … International Monetary Fund (IMF); and 3) the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). I use a standard …

the span between the start of trade talks and their conclusion. We use data from 88 regional trade agreements between 1988 …