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. …

The unprecedented drop in international trade during the last quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009 has mainly …

for demographic characteristics, country of origin, cohort and age at migration although cross-country differences exist …

The paper analyses the evolution of the trade specialisation pattern in the ten countries which will join the EU in …

This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing … intra and inter-industry trade as well as between trade from western and eastern Europe and we try to assess the relative … importance of foreign wages versus domestic productivity developments in an open environment. We find that trade is not an …