In the era of economic globalization, cultural goods trade has assumed a vital role in overall bilateral trade. It has become an emerging and transformative force behind socio-cultural-economic development and an important source of inclusive growth. Once virtually unlocked, trade in cultural goods is now fast growing with world-wide market openings. Trade liberalisation in cultural goods thus ...

Cross-border production fragmentation enables countries to export domestic value added not only directly in the form of gross exports of final goods, but also indirectly by participating in global supply chains. This paper studies the determinants of trade in value added. I incorporate the global input-output structure into an international trade model to derive an approximate gravity equation ...

With the help of a standard 2 × 2 trade model, we develop several hypotheses on the effects of cross-border sourcing on skill intensity in production. The focus is on cross-border sourcing of low-skill-intensive components of exports and import-competing products. We test the aforementioned hypotheses with panel data for manufacturing in the European Union (EU). We find that outward processing ...

Attempts are made to provide a theoretical justification for using the gravity model in the analysis of bilateral trade and apply the generalized gravity model to analyse the Bangladesh’s trade with its major trading partners using the panel data estimation technique. We have estimated the gravity model of trade (sum of exports and imports), the gravity model of export and the gravity model of ...

BEA study uses novel data to explore export methods Over the past decade, interest in the industrial organization of international trade has exploded, as new microdata sets have led to the development of heterogeneous firm trade models that link firm characteristics and export participation. economist at the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), has added to the literature with a recent paper that...

In a model where upstream network insiders conduct relationship-specific investment, downstream firms have an incentive to transact within networks. Evidence from US auto parts exports to 26 auto-producing countries supports key predictions of the model. Greater production scale for assemblers lowers imported parts per car. Vertical networks matter in two ways. First, although Japan’s average i...

Information, Corruption, and Measures for the Promotion of Manufactured Exports Glenn P. Jenkins and Chun-Yan Kuo There has been a growing emphasis in many developing countries on exportled growth policies that attract both domestic and foreign investment into activities for the expansion of manufacturing exports. Often the actual outcome of the policies has been very different than the intenti...

Each month the U. S. Census Bureau receives from the Customs and Border Protection Service documents describing all U.S. exports over $2,500. Most exporters now file the required documents via the Automated Export System. Because of filing options, for the majority of exporters, we have no information on "low-valued" exports (LVEs), those valued at or below the exemption level of $2,500; for th...

We combine input-output and bilateral trade data to quantify cross-border production linkages. Using a complete trading system, we compute bilateral trade in value added for 87 countries and regions. The ratio of value added to gross exports is a measure of the intensity of production sharing. Across sectors, manufacturing has a relatively low ratio and thus accounts for a smaller share of expo...

Based on a micro-founded gravity equation and resorting to new database of interregional trade flows within European Union countries, we study the asymmetric concentration inflows in importing regions when exports come from with different geographical advantages terms their accessibility international border. As case consider Spanish–French border characterized by two distinct coastal gateways ...