firm-level productivity paths differ between firms with varying degrees of exposure to international trade in India, the …

biased technical progress rather than by increasing international trade with low wage countries. However, in linking prices … for final goods with prices of primary factors, most empirical studies have only dealt with international trade in final …

integration between the European Union and developing countries by removing barriers to trade: trade preferences and trade … practitioners and researchers in both areas, the paper concludes that while at least some trade preferences actually have been less … of a failure than their reputation suggests, trade facilitation is a far more promising policy option for the future. …

Weak enforcement of international contracts can substantially reduce international trade. We develop a model where … information. The model describes the interplay between institutional quality, reputations and the dynamics of international trade … exporters. Trade liberalization induces current exporters to increase their sales. It could induce entry as well, but this will …

exporting” is pervasive. Sequential exporting has broad but subtle implications for trade policy. For example, a reduction in … trade barriers in a country has delayed entry effects in its own market, while also promoting entry in other markets. This … trade externality poses challenges for the quantification of the effects of trade liberalization programs, while suggesting …

The paper analyses sectoral patterns of intra-Asian trade for selected Asian countries as well as for sub … extra-Asian trade, almost all sample countries concentrate their intra-Asian exports more on non-manufactures. Within … manufactures, resource-intensive goods still play a larger role in intra-Asian trade than in trade outside Asia. This reflects both …

trade creation effect of monetary integration (so-called Rose effect) which is heavily debated in the literature. Recent … are already highly integrated in terms of trade and factor mobility. The potential discrimination effect against trade … to Europe. At the same time, so-called overlap or similarity indices for trade patterns show an increasing similarity …

This paper focuses on self-selection into trade by exporting and importing firms, and on the presence of differential … heterogeneity and the connection between firm-level performance and international trade. They provide evidence on the remarkable …