This study empirically examines the effect of export control regulations on Japan's exports
using monthly export data at the destination country-product level. The study covers the …

Despite enormous academic interest in international trade costs and keen policy interest in
efforts to reduce them, little is known about the effects of trade facilitation measures. This …

The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) was signed into law in May 2000 to
encourage increased trade and investment between the United States and Sub-Saharan …

We use a new database of commitments made during the process of ratifying the Trade
Facilitation Agreement (TFA) to study variation in countries' commitment behaviour. The TFA …

The rapid growth of international trade and global value chains in the past decades has
been associated with significant reduction in trade costs. But while some develo** …

This article provides a direct assessment of how fixed export costs (FECs) and productivity
jointly determine firm‐level export behavior. Using Chilean data, we construct indices of …

In this paper, we estimate the effects of transit systems that substantially streamline
administrative processing of trade flows. In so doing, we use a unique dataset that consists …

We examine how import processing time, which is one of the major obstacles in international
trade, affects export patterns at the establishment level. Investigating the effect of such time …

Security concerns in a context of increasingly segmented supply chains have led to stricter
border control measures, which may potentially negatively affect international trade …

Актуальность темы исследования. В начале ХХ в. в связи с историческими и
общественными катаклизмами, изменениями, происходящими в Российской империи …