We explore the export performance of Africa’s underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel, a...

This paper studies the relationship between firm markups and importing intermediate inputs and exporting using detailed firm-level...

KBW 16: The German current account surplus in relation to GDP has reached record high levels in historical and international...

KBW 12: The trend decline of productivity growth in Germany is not due to a single cause but is the result of the interplay of...

How do labour market policies influence employment's responsiveness to output fluctuations (employment-output elasticity)? We revisit...

We build a model of administrative barriers to trade to understand how they affect trade volumes, shipping decisions and welfare....

Using detailed U.S. and Spanish export data, we document that trade costs of a per-shipment nature are associated with less frequent...

Most economists view trade as benefiting countries overall but leading to winners and losers within nations. This column summarises a...

The goal of this chapter is to summarize the state of the art in research in international trade and global production, and discuss...

We use a unique cross-section survey of manufacturing firms from four European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain) linked with...

In December 2018, G20 leaders committed themselves to fair and sustainable development, focusing, among other issues, on the labour...