This paper explores official trade data to identify patterns of smuggling in international trade. Our main measure of … interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the … with the level of corruption in both partner countries. This finding supports the hypothesis that trade gaps partly …

We document the outbreak of a trade war after the U.S. adopted the Smoot-Hawley tariff in June 1930. U.S. trade … retaliate by increasing their tariffs on imports from the United States. Using a new quarterly dataset on bilateral trade for 99 … possible mechanism whereby the U.S. was targeted despite countries’ MFN obligations. The retaliators’ welfare gains from trade …

What is the impact on intra-national trade and regional economic outcomes when the quality and lane-capacity of an … transactions, we estimate a large positive impact of reduced travel times on trade as well as local manufacturing employment and …

international fora. Data presented show bilateral trade between Brazil and China surging after 2001 and China is now Brazil … rates suggest that China will become the dominant trade partner for Brazil surprisingly soon. …We document key features of the deepening economic relationship between Brazil and China. This is evident from sharply …

With ever-increasing political tensions between China and Russia on one side and the EU and the US on the other, it … computable general equilibrium trade model calibrated with the latest version of the GTAP database to simulate the effect of … doubling non-tariff barriers - both unilateral and reciprocal - between the two blocks on trade and welfare. Imposing trade …

This paper uses Chinese customs data to investigate the trade effects of anti-dumping (AD) policies. Merging firm … larger ones, suggesting important within-industry reallocation effects. Moreover, we find evidence for trade deflection as AD …

expanded a currency swap line with the People's Bank of China. Within the next few months, the share of imports from China … document firm-level spillovers, with RMB use for imports from China increasing the likelihood of RMB use for imports from other … countries. Finally, we observe an effect on trade volumes. Firms switching to RMB saw increased total imports. …

currencies relative to gold between 1929 and 1936. What were the currency war's effects on trade flows? We use newly …-compiled, highfrequency bilateral trade data and gravity models that account for when and whether trade partners had devalued to identify the … effects of the currency war on global trade. Our empirical estimates show that a country's trade was reduced by more than 21 …

We document the outbreak of a trade war after the U.S. adopted the Smoot-Hawley tariff in June 1930. U.S. trade … retaliate by increasing their tariffs on imports from the United States. Using a new quarterly dataset on bilateral trade for 99 … possible mechanism whereby the U.S. was targeted despite countries’ MFN obligations. The retaliators’ welfare gains from trade …

carbon emissions and welfare by introducing heterogeneous transport technology to a quantitative model of trade. The … determine trade flows, transport costs and emissions in the entire network. Unilateral policy interferes with the allocation … impose unilateral measures to decarbonize maritime trade. This paper investigates the impact of unilateral policy on global …