This paper documents the construction of BACI, our international trade database, which covers more than 200 countries … analysis. These measures of the reliability of reported data are used as weights in the reconciliation of each bilateral trade …

and products, based on a systematic analysis of discrepancies in trade declarations - when available - for both partners …

This paper studies the implications of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) proliferation. Using counterfactual … estimation, we disentangle the treatment effect of one PTA on members’ trade and real income, from the externalities created by … concurrent trade policy changes. Results, focusing on the MENA region between 2001 and 2007, reveal that the concurrent trade …