Trade logistics facilitate trade. Quality logistics services play an important role in facilitating the transportation … of international trade in goods: inefficient logistics services impede trade by imposing an extra cost in terms of time … that trade logistics play in the volume and value of international trade and the extent to which poor quality logistics …

Dynamic gains from trade can be an important conduit for increased firm-level innovation and productivity, both key … components of economic growth. This paper builds on previous research on the dynamic gains from trade by moving beyond a single … gains through the import of intermediate inputs and capital goods and systematically explores the specific impacts of non-trade …

well as in their internationalisation process. This affects many dimensions of each economy, most notably their trade … mind, the purpose of this paper is to consider the evolution of trade and labour market outcomes in Denmark and Spain since … the early 1990s, in order to provide policy-relevant insights on the relationship between production, trade and labour …

increased international trade. This study tests two theories as to why democracies might trade more. First, political freedom … trade more. Second, democracy implies higher quality governance either through institutions or policy-making procedures. I … utilize a bilateral gravity trade model covering approximately 150 countries from 1950 to 1999, with fixed effects for time …

Trade deficits and surpluses are sometimes attributed to intentionally low or high exchange rate levels. The impact of … exchange rate levels on trade has been much debated but the large body of existing empirical literature does not suggest an … unequivocally clear picture of the trade impacts of changes in exchange rates. The impact of exchange rate volatility on trade also …

This paper examines, in France, the relationship between imports – and trade more generally – and employment. It builds … on the burgeoning literature relating trade and labour markets, taking into account theories of firm-level trade and … covering trade, economic variables and employment for the time period from 1995 to 2004. The data set covers manufacturing …

We analyze the effects of trade liberalization on Mexican employment at an occupational level for the period from 1992 … to 2009, ranking occupations by skill level. We find that the reduction in trade costs associated with Mexico's entry to …-biased technological change in Mexico, and in favour of a heterogeneous-firm model of trade in tasks where the offshoring cost of an …