This study uses a unique firm-level dataset to examine how falling trade costs from 1993-2001 affected entry, exit …-firm models of international trade. For example, falling trade costs reduced entry by new Korean firms, increased their …

Abstract: We assess whether and how violence and political instability affect trade between developed and developing … countries considering the special case of EU imports of Kenyan roses after the 2007/08 post-election violence and political … highlight the importance of non-tariff barriers to trade and contribute to the growing literature on the role of insecurity and …

In this paper, we empirically assess how information cost, as one component of trade costs, impacts the decision of an …

This study allows for variation of trade costs among regions, since a single trade costs measure may not appreciate the … large number and diverse regions of the United States through which trade in food manufacturing occurs. …

I introduce a novel general equilibrium framework for agricultural trade policy analysis with heterogeneous producers … in which agro-ecological characteristics in uence patterns of specialization within the sector and trade costs are … product-specific. This induces substantial variation in market share elasticities with respect to trade costs, with the …

International trade costs are known to be large but difficult to measure. Using a microfounded gravity equation based … on the framework in Novy (2011), this study estimates an indirect measure of multilateral trade costs for tradable goods … in agriculture. Using production and bilateral trade data along with plausible values of the elasticity of substitution …

how U.S. prices affect China’s imports by country. In comparing demand projections, results show that the relationship …

The dynamic relationships among trade, income and the environment for developed and developing countries are examined … using a cointegration analysis. Results suggest that trade and income growth tend to increase environmental quality in … found that for developed countries the causal relationship appears to run from trade and income to the environment - a …