-country, two-good general equilibrium model of international trade when transfers are not feasible. We consider "weak …

barrier to trade: having an additional vertically integrated establishment in a given destination zip code has the same effect … on shipment volumes as a 40 percent reduction in distance. We then calibrate a multisector trade model to quantify the …

still exist widespread interregional trade barriers, such as policies and practices that protect local firms against …

This paper estimates the impact of U.S. trade remedy (TR) actions on agricultural trade from 1990 to 2014. Most … previous studies of the effects of TR actions have left out agricultural products. We use a four-country oligopolistic trade ….S. imports from non-named countries increase even before the implementation of a TR duty. The extent of trade diversion is …

Red-tape barriers (RTBs) are an important source of trade costs, but have received little scholarly attention to date …. Here we examine the economic-political determinants of RTBs and their effects on trade. Because of their wasteful nature …, RTBs have very different implications from those of more traditional trade barriers. In particular, RTBs have important …

innovation endogenously determines the dynamics of technology, and, therefore, market leadership and trade flows, in a world with … illustrates that, statically, globalization (defined as reduced trade barriers) has ambiguous effects on welfare, while …

outsourcing. Respondents are given a choice among no government action, compensatory transfers, and trade protection. In response … to these shocks, support for government intervention generally rises sharply and is heavily biased towards trade … protection. Demand for import protection increases significantly in all cases, except for the “bad management” shock. Trade …

exporters of capital goods to the rest of the world. We develop a model of trade in capital goods to assess its role spreading … the benefits of technological advances. Applying the model to data on production and bilateral trade in capital equipment …, we estimate the barriers to trade in equipment. These estimates imply substantial differences in equipment prices across …

to the external terms of trade in Latin America between 1820 and 1950: from the 1890s onwards the terms of trade … fostered trade, policy suppressed it: tariff rates were higher in Latin America than almost anywhere else in the world between …, regardless of motivation. However, protective policy was modified by those powerful and positive terms of trade shocks, yielding …

The two models of international trade with developed factor markets -- Heckscher-Ohlin and Specific Factors -- both … suffer significant defects. For example, their predictions about the patterns of domestic production and international trade … pattern of production, (2) North-North and North-South trade, (3) the demand for protection, (4) the determinants of domestic …