Belgium. Both imports and exports appear to be highly concentrated among few firms and seem to have become more so over time …. Focusing on manufacturing, we find that facts previously reported in the literature for exports only actually apply to imports …This paper explores a newly-available panel data set merging balance sheet and international trade transaction data for …

countries have distorted rice trade. This study estimates the impact of rice policy distortions on developing countries' rice … production and trade potential. Because rice markets are highly segmented, major rice types are differentiated to estimate the … trade would also be affected by a reduction of the high over-quota tariff." from Authors' Abstract …

Sri Lanka—very differently given their diversity in terms of size, income, and structure of trade and protection. Using … equilibrium global model, this study examines the effects of SAFTA on trade and net income in the region. The magnitude of the …. Exempting sensitive products from the agreement limits gains from trade for the lower-middle-income members of SAFTA but may be …

through a large nation-wide land titling program and a significant opening of the economy to international trade. This paper …

-oriented alternatives...which demonstrate that more can be accomplished in the Doha Round if these two development-oriented and pro-trade …

"In recent years, trade in Africa has assumed greater importance as a means of alleviating poverty, especially since … has grown (Easterly 2006). Trade and aid have often been viewed as interchangeable, but “aid for trade” has recently … gained prominence, with the result that the two factors are more often treated as complementary. Proponents of “aid for trade …

"What is at stake in the standoff between the United States and Europe over agriculture in the Doha Round of trade … talks at the World Trade Organization (WTO)? What impact would an agreement based on greater or lesser levels of ambition …

would go all the way up to currently bound tariff rates, world trade would decrease by 7.7 percent. In a more modest … scenario where countries would raise tariffs to maximum rates applied during the past 13 years, world trade would decrease by 3 … billion under the more modest scenario. While such an increase in duties would particularly impact agricultural exports (–6 …

This paper investigates whether differences across countries in overall country-specific trade costs affect comparative … advantage. It does so by examining whether the commodity composition of countries’ trade is driven by differences in countries …’ trade costs, as well as by differences in traditional factor endowments. Industry export shares across up to 71 countries …

consider a data set of exports from individual U.S. states to foreign countries and combine it with trade flows within and …Many studies have found that international borders represent large barriers to trade. But how do international borders … between U.S. states. After controlling distance and country/state size, we find that relative to state-to-state trade …