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 …

specific (per-unit) duties on patterns of agricultural trade. Specific duties may encourage countries to export higher priced … products, leading to an “Alchian-Allen effect” on unit values. Their restrictive effect on trade values is smaller for …

upgrading of the EU15 imports from its emerging neighbours. The EU15 trade with emerging markets in Asia have strengthened the …

smaller than the industrial firms which trade services. We end up with an econometric estimation à la Bernard and Jensen (2004 …

these host markets. To address this question, we consider an empirical trade model, where the foreign sales of multinational … retailers reduce the fixed and variable trade costs of their conational firms towards the same destination markets. We test our … reduction of trade costs towards these markets for other firms of the origin country. Our result is robust to different …

world volume of trade in goods. The collapse of trade values has been even larger, leading to a decrease of import price … over high quality varieties are expected to lose more trade in periods of global turmoil, and experience a faster recovery. …