For most experts the crisis paralyzing trade multilateralism is way down everyone's to-do list or at least so it seems. But that is far from the whole story because trade multilateralism today is about third-generation big tent trade agreements embodying the invasive presence of global...

Constant Market Share Analysis (CMSA) is a method which decomposes the variation of market shares of any trader country. The more recent version is proposed by Fagerberg and Sollie (1985) that avoids some limits deriving from previously specifications. After explicating how CMSA works, this note...