rapid increase in the share of China in world trade. As the world is taking the full measure of this phenomenon, tensions … therefore provides an assessment of China’s “natural” place in the world economy based on a new set of trade integration … indicators. These indicators are used as a benchmark in order to examine whether China’s share in international trade is …

International trade in manufacturing goods has risen strongly over the past decades, contributing to the expansion of … effects” that are arguably related to the ICT revolution that started around 1985, and (ii) the implementation of Free Trade … capture the emergence of GVCs by disentangling domestic and international trade in final goods and intermediate inputs …

The aim of the paper is to analyse the factors behind the rapid trade integration of the Central and Eastern European … enhanced gravity model estimated with a large sample of bilateral trade flows across 61 countries since 1980. We show that a …-of-sample” approach. The results suggest that trade integration between most of the largest Central and Eastern European countries and the …

rapid increase in the share of China in world trade. As the world is taking the full measure of this phenomenon, tensions … therefore provides an assessment of China's "natural" place in the world economy based on a new set of trade integration … indicators. These indicators are used as a benchmark in order to examine whether China's share in international trade is …

This paper analyses the rapid trade integration of the Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC's) with the euro … estimated for a large sample of bilateral trade flows across 61 countries since 1980. We show that a careful examination of the … the transition process. We therefore propose a two-stage "out-of-sample" approach. The results suggest that trade …

Rising trade tensions, a spate of trade-inhibiting policy measures and a weakening of multilateral institutions have … sparked a growing concern about the potential implications of global trade fragmentation. Yet, empirical evidence that … geopolitical considerations are already materially affecting trade flows is scant. In this study, we quantify the impact of …

a key component of attempts to reshore production and are an increasingly popular trade policy instrument in general … implemented unilaterally or induce a retaliation from trade partners, and also the extent to which they reduce domestic …

We analyze the role of economic and security considerations in bilateral trade agreements. We use the pre-World War I … period to test whether trade agreements are governed by pecuniary factors, such as distance and other frictions measured by … the probability of trade agreements by as much as 20 percentage points. Our estimates imply that were the U.S. to alienate …

Quantifying the effects of trade policy in the age of "global value chains" (GVCs) requires an enhanced analytical … equilibrium models generally assume that industry-level bilateral final and intermediate trade shares are identical, and that the … structure reported in input-output tables. This allows us to investigate the relation between the effects of changes in trade …