countries despite their very different levels of development. We then study how firm performance and trade policy affect pricing … more to market. More importantly, we identify significant effects of trade-policy instruments on pricing-to-market: Higher …, and suggest that trade policy has deep effects on market power, the direction of which depends on the type of instrument …

Global Value Chains (GVCs) have become a central topic in trade and development policy but little is known about their …

. Second, we consider implications of this prediction for firm growth rates and survival. Consistent with the learning model …, we find that: (i) the absolute value of the mean growth rate for firms' beliefs decreases with age, as does the variance …

This paper is the first study to use the disaggregated data of the Czech foreign trade to examine the effect of … exchange rate levels and volatility on trade flows. We analyze the period from 1993 to 2013 and disaggregate the data according … relationship between exchange rates and foreign trade in Czechia does not completely correspond with the theoretical assumptions …

-level trade and tariff data, we also find evidence that the type of trading partner, as well as the consideration of current or … anticipated trade preferences matters. …

-level performance, via two channels simultaneously: trade and FDI. We develop a simple theoretical model showing that trade integration …

According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant … support to the pollution haven hypothesis, i.e. environmental stringency is not found to affect significantly total trade, or … its components (pollution intensive trade and pollution intensive trade related to non-resource-based trade). …