World trade evolves at two margins. Where a bilateral trading relationship already exists it may increase through time … growth in manufacturing world trade along these two margins. We propose a "cornersolutions- version"of the gravity model to … (intensive margin). But trade may also increase if a trading bilateral relationship is newly established between countries that …

This article describes the development of international trade blocs world wide from the 1950s till 2010. We updated the … data on international trade flows and introduced a new trade bloc variable based on the intramax hierarchical clustering … technique, which defines trade blocs on actual trade intensities and not - as was preciously done - by traditional geographic …

substantially reduced trade costs and has enlarged the choice sets of music consumers around the world. Using comprehensive data on …The objective of this paper is to document the evolution of cross-border music trade patterns in this transition period … and to explain what drives digital music trade patterns. The shift from analogue to digital music distribution has …

"Specialization alters the incidence of manufacturing trade costs to buyers and sellers, with pro-and anti … predicted local trade to predicted frictionless local trade) and the Total Factor Productivity effect of changing incidence. A … bit more than half the world's countries experience declining CHB and rising TFP. The correlation between the two is …