A structural gravity model is used to estimate barriers to services trade across many sectors, countries and time …

A growing share of modern trade policy instruments is shaped by non-tariff barriers (NTBs). Based on a structural … gravity equation and the recently updated Global Trade Alert database, we empirically investigate the effect of NTBs on … imports. Our analysis reveals that the implementation of NTBs reduces imports of affected products by up to 12%. Their 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 …

-parametric formulas, we measure how trade modifies the deadweight loss of markups through two channels: (1) trade-induced change in markup … zero-sum welfare effects similar to implicit tariffs that tilt the terms of trade in favor of countries exporting high … compile new data on global profit ownership. Our findings reveal that trade has greatly reshaped the global incidence of …

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 … to cooperate rather than turning away from each other. By imposing a trade war on Russia, the political West could …

Does "infant industry" preferential access durably boost export performance? This paper exploits significant trade … causal impact of these changes, we use a triple-differences regression and 26 years of newly constructed trade and tariff … countries. The illusion of sustained African apparel exports is created by late-bloomers in East Africa offsetting boom …

Trade shocks in export markets may affect the employment composition and the organization of exporting firms. In … on firms' organization of shocks induced by the introduction of Technical Barriers to Trade (TBTs) in exporting countries …. It relies on the Specific Trade Concern (STC) data released by the WTO to identify trade-restrictive TBT measures …

This paper analyses the direct and indirect trade volume and trade cost effects of uncertainty on international trade … to 2018. Our results suggest that an increase in unilateral uncertainty affects average trade costs in a heterogeneous …-sectional gravity approach, we show that an uncertainty shock directly reduces cross-border trade flows. The paper illustrates the …

We study the impact of the Indian trade liberalization of 1991 on development at the district level using satellite … nighttime lights per capita as a proxy for development. We find that on average trade liberalization increased nighttime lights …

Did the 2018/19 US-China trade war trigger adjustment of Global Value Chains (GVCs) and nearshoring to Mexico? We … address this question with confidential longitudinal firm-level trade data from Mexico that covers the universe of … international trade transactions over 2015-2021. By merging the firm-level customs data with a registry of GVC firms and …