When national competitiveness is invoked as a policy objective, trade experts have learned to retort that countries don't trade, firms do. This focus on the importance of the firm in international trade is consistent with the most recent developments in trade theory, but policy needs to catch...

Overview of the research findings / Stephen Tapp, Ari Van Assche and Robert Wolfe -- International trade with firm heterogeneity : theoretical developments and policy implications / Beverly Lapham -- Trade and productivity : insights from Canadian firm-level data / John Baldwin and Beiling Yan...

Export restrictions can be problematic if trading partners question either their conformity with international obligations or their possibly unintended negative impacts on others. Regulatory transparency can help. This paper examines how three multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs)...