domestic regulatory measures and the trade-related norms and rules of the WTO. There follows an analysis of experience with …

Are U.S. exports different from China's exports? If so, how? This paper attempts to answer this question, focusing on … the exports of China and the United States are similar in terms of variety. More than 85 percent of U.S. export products … to Japan are commonly exported from China. However, U.S. exports are different from China's exports in terms of quality …

. This measure is strongly correlated with the volatility of terms-of-trade, total exports, and output, but does not exhibit … a close relationship to the level of income, overall trade openness, or other country characteristics. We then propose …It has been suggested that countries whose exports are in especially risky sectors will experience higher output …

If trade costs matter for trade, and if distance matters for at least some trade costs, then location matters for trade … developing countries. In this paper I explore the relationship between location and trade in a simple partial equilibrium model … regimes arise in this model, depending on trade costs compared to differences in autarky prices. These range from complete …

When there are costs of trade, such as transport or other costs, the pattern of trade may not be well described by the …. Instead, a better comparison takes into account the costs of trade. This paper shows first, in an example, how trade patterns … can vary with costs of trade. It then provides restatements of the Law of Comparative Advantage, first in a Ricardian …