This paper analyses the effect of international borders and of trade agreements at international borders on subnational … 1950 and 2017. Our results show that international borders decrease regional income per capita, while trade agreements at … international borders increase regional income per capita by about the same magnitude. The positive marginal effect of trade …

We propose and apply a new theory-consistent algorithm, which uses disaggregated inter-city trade data to identify a …

interregional trade was strongly influenced by connectivity within the network. Today, these connectivity differentials continue to …

in sentiment. Third, the trade-induced U.S. sentiment toward China is broad-based, encompassing political, military, and …We empirically examine how import competition affects sentiment toward China in local communities in the United States … using a news-based index for sentiment. Results are threefold. First, U.S. sentiment toward China peaked in 2007 before …

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 …

We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade (openness) on interregional inequality within … on weighted trade shares and trade costs. In addition to the standard trade-to-GDP ratio, we derive and propose an … aggregate freeness-of-trade measure based on phiness of trade. Both measures are instrumented by proxies constructed from …

We quantify the effect of container technology on transport costs and trade by estimating the modal choice between … containerization and breakbulk shipping using micro-level trade data. The model is motivated by novel facts that relate container usage … trade increase since its inception: a quantitative exercise suggests that Turkish and U.S. maritime exports would have been …

Chinese case is analyzed as an introductory example. FDI has increased regional inequalities in China after the economic …