The World Trade Organization forecasts that the volume of global trade will in 2009 exhibit its biggest contraction since World War II. This large drop in international trade is generating significant attention and concern. Given the severity of the current global recession, is international...

Adjustment primarily occurred through existing importers and exporters changing their product mix. This implies that the macroeconomic impact of such rapid external adjustment does not come from the two channels most focused on in the literature: it does not result from the reallocation of...