This paper presents and analyzes patterns of trade for a broad category of technology-intensive products, including ATP (advanced technology products), for a group of 15 economies in Asia, Europe, and the United States. Using export data from 1997-2006, we examine the rate of diffusion...

Many improvements have been proposed for the basic gravity model specification, most of which are confirmed by standard statistical tests due to the large number of observations often used to estimate such models. We use Monte Carlo experiments to examine situations in which features of models...

Many production firms use intermediary trading firms to export indirectly. This paper uses Chinese export data at the transaction level to investigate the tax evasion motive through indirect trade. The paper provides strong evidence that, under Chinas partial export value-added tax rebate...