A variety of empirical and theoretical trade papers have suggested and documented a positive impact of trade on the … productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access … competition from abroad. The latter finding is at odds with most trade models, so I propose a model incorporating non …

This paper documents the construction of BACI, our international trade database, which covers more than 200 countries … analysis. These measures of the reliability of reported data are used as weights in the reconciliation of each bilateral trade …

regional trade agreements involving the US. We exploit the variation in the frequency with which the US has granted immediate … duty free access (IDA) to its Free Trade Area partners across tariff lines. A key finding is that the US has granted IDA … Uruguay Round (multilateral) ‘concessions’ have emulated subsequent (preferential) trade liberalisation. We conclude from this …

specific (per-unit) duties on patterns of agricultural trade. Specific duties may encourage countries to export higher priced … products, leading to an “Alchian-Allen effect” on unit values. Their restrictive effect on trade values is smaller for …