The results of the assessment of the state of trade barriers for the entry of Russian exporters into the foreign market are given. It was established that tariff barriers of Russia with the main trading partners are minimized. An analysis of the level of tariff applied by individual groups of...

We analyze the market dynamics that are caused by tariff-rate quotas, particularly the effects of quota license allocation between heterogeneous commodities at the tariff line level. The allocation is endogenously modeled with a mixed complementarity problem approach for the case of the...

Domestic policies that regulate the horizontal dimensions of product differentiation can impede international trade and have become a major concern in contemporary trade negotiations. We estimate trade frictions associated with incompatible designs of electric plugs, a well-known example of a...

This paper provides new insights regarding trends prior to temporary trade barrier (TTB) investigations and shows how they challenge the identification of trade effects. Using TTB cases initiated in the United States between 1993 and 2015, we compare static and dynamic treatment specifications...

The development of the Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI), first published by the OECD in 2014, launched a fruitful period in applied research on services trade. Applied as a template to the text of trade agreements, it enabled a specific quantification of the depth of liberalization of...

The unexpected outbreak of the U.S.-China trade war led to dramatic increases in the import and export tariffs confronting Chinese firms. Due to firm-level differences in trade engagement, customs trade data combined with tariff changes allow us to measure firm-level exposure to the trade war....