This article examines the power of labor market rigidities (LMR) to influence export flows of 113 countries from 1995 to 2013 for up to 5018 different goods. Since LMR can alter the productive use of factors in the production process, I expect that the interplay of a country's LMR and the...

We propose a novel way to measure the rule of law intensity of exports at the goods level based on nearly 100 million disaggregated bilateral trade flows around the globe. We categorise goods into three groups: fragmented, primary and other. The theoretical literature on holdup problems...