Dramatic changes are occurring in the nature of international trade. Production processes increasingly involve a … market countries we estimate that vertical specialization accounts for up to 30 percent of world exports, and has grown as … with the fact that trade barriers (tariffs and transportation costs) are incurred repeatedly as goods-in-process cross …

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 …

-through. Second, we test and quantify the theoretical mechanisms using Belgian firm-product-level data with information on exports by … destination and imports by source country. We confirm that import intensity and market share are the prime determinants of pass …

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 …

. Aggregate data on prices and quantities of imports, outputs, and factor supplies are constructed from disaggregate sources. The … final goods prices. In contrast, imports have played a negligible direct role. …

With "home bias," a consumer differentiates between domestic goods and imports and tends to purchase the domestic … variety. A vast number of empirical studies in the international trade literature report the apparent prevalence of a large … degree of home bias (the case of the "missing trade," the "border puzzle"). Many theoretical studies, in turn, assume its …