Opportunities for well-paid employment for women are scarce in many African countries. Entrepreneurship is therefore one way in which women...

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

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

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

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

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 multiple...

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

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

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

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

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

Economic zones can be powerful drivers of economic growth in developing countries. However, less is known about their distributional impact on...

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