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...

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

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

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...

Kieler Beiträge zur Wirtschaftspolitik No. 16: The German current account surplus in relation to GDP has reached record high levels in...

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

Kieler Beiträge zur Wirtschaftspolitik No. 12: The trend decline of productivity growth in Germany is not due to a single cause but is...