In many countries, a sizable share of international trade is carried out by intermediaries. While large firms tend to … dynamic trade model with both direct and indirect exporting modes and customer accumulation. The model is calibrated to match … trade in Vietnam are generated by indirect exporters. Finally, I demonstrate that a dynamic model that excludes the indirect …

bilateral distance, tariffs, and the quality of their exports. Under the assumption that trade costs are both ad valorem and per …

We construct a new database which covers production and trade in 136 primary commodities and 24 manufacturing and … service sectors for 145 countries. Using this new more granular data, we estimate spillover effects from plausible trade … accounting for granular commodity production and trade linkages leads to underestimation of the output losses associated with …

trade, while accommodating asymmetries in trade flows. A new equation for the proportion of exporting firms takes a gravity … multilateral resistance terms with which to capture the comparative static effects of changes in trade costs. For isolated … bilateral changes in trade frictions, multilateral resistance effects are small for most countries. However, if all countries …

economic leadership has heated up, with risks of decoupling that could set back trade and growth and hinder the recovery from …

could undermine LAC's competitive advantage in some export markets. In this context, reduction of trade barriers and further …