Studying international trade based on micro and disaggregated macro data

This special issue includes eight papers on a range of topics related to the study of the variety and quality of trade in development and transition based on micro and disaggregated macro data. The authors discuss country and country-group specific trade patterns on firm and/or product level, and address problems of measuring quality in trade. They relate trade variety to growth, Balassa-Samuelson effects, and corruption, and trace variations in variety to trade barriers.