Global trade contracted quickly and severely during the global crisis. This paper, using a unique dataset of French … firms, matching together export data with firm-level credit constraints, shows that most of the 2008-2009 trade collapse is … crisis, the overall impact of credit constraints on trade remains limited. - Financial crisis ; credit constraints …

The unprecedented drop in international trade during the last quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009 has mainly … crisis ; international trade ; firms' heterogeneity ; intensive and extensive margins …

This paper considers the asymmetric effect of Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) policies on heterogeneous exporters …, based on matching a detailed panel of French firm exports to a new database of Trade Facilita- tion Indicators (TFIs … three trade-related outcomes: (i) exported value (firm intensive margin), (ii) number of products exported (product …

This paper considers the asymmetric effect of Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) policies on heterogeneous exporters …, based on matching a detailed panel of French firm exports to a new database of Trade Facilitation Indicators (TFIs) released … trade-related outcomes: (i) exported value (firm intensive margin), (ii) number of products exported (product extensive …

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 …

We examine the setting of national competition policy in a two-country setting,emphasizing the relationship of trade to … equilibrium distributional effects of competition policy, therelationship of national competition policy to terms-of-trade gains … and losses,the implications of "distinct national markets" linked through trade (thestarting point for all trade theorists …

Stringent Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) are expected to drive exporters out of the markets imposing these hurdles … measures raised as concerns at the WTO (Specific Trade Concerns - STCs), with a firm-level panel of French exporters, we show … the complex effects of restrictive TBT measures on the different margins of trade. We show that the negative effect of TBT …

Geography, economic size, or common history, help predicting signed regional trade agreements (RTAs). However, not all … two mechanisms addressed in this paper. We estimate the time-varying probability for a country pair to sign a trade …