Do trade reforms that significantly reduce import barriers lead to faster economic growth? In
the twenty-five years since Rodríguez and Rodrik's (2000) critical survey of empirical work …

This article reviews recent studies on the impact of financial frictions on international trade.
We first present evidence on the relation between measures of access to external finance …

This paper studies the industry-level and aggregate implications of financial development on
international trade. I set up a multi-industry general equilibrium model of international trade …

We study the role of financial frictions and balance-sheet effects in accounting for the
dynamics of aggregate exports in large devaluations. We investigate a small open economy …

We examine if and why export responses to real exchange depreciations are lower than
those to appreciations. We document this asymmetric response using macro-level data for …

We provide a quantitative analysis of the distributional effects of the 2018 increase in tariffs
by the United States and its major trading partners. We build a trade model with incomplete …

This paper evaluates the impact of two export finance support schemes: The Export Finance
Scheme (EFS) and the Long-Term Finance Facility for Plant & Machinery (LTFF) on firm …

Exporters are typically large and productive firms, and many policies implicitly or explicitly
encourage them to expand. In this paper I combine a natural experiment and a dynamic …

We study empirically and theoretically the dynamic effects of the unilateral reduction in
import tariffs undertaken by Colombia from 1989-1993, with a particular emphasis on the …

We provide firm-level evidence that a private exporter may lower its financing costs by
introducing a small (kitty) share of state ownership. However, if the state acquires a lion …