International trade theory is a sub-field of economics which analyzes the patterns of international trade, its origins, and its welfare implications.

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### How does the trade problem in Ricardian model of int'l trade work?

Sorry if this question seems fragmented; I have minimal background in economics, I just grabbed some notes and began studying. The scenario is given as: "Suppose Germany needs to make a 1 billion ...
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### what is the impact of inflation on export of pakistan?

I wanted to know about the relationship of inflation and export if the country. How does it effect when inflation increase or decrease?
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### Which countries produce ventillators, and which countries are importing ventillators?

I am interested in finding out where ventilators are produced and which countries are importing ventilators. I found only bits and pieces online. Interested with global supply chain and current ...
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### How can you define a commodity's level of pollution intensity?

I am doing a report on whether environmental regulation has an impact on goods exports for the UK (Using difference-in-differences). I have export data from 1990 to 2018 split by SITC codes. However, ...
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### Why do we spread knowledge across nations?

We have access to lots of knowledge on paper sharing platforms, open course platforms, open-source platforms and question asking platforms and etc. I don't know why we are not afraid of the backfires ...
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### Export is high sensitive to external income. How can be this explained?

I am estimating an export equation, where dependent variable is export and independent variables are exchange rates, external income and other controls. Each coefficient is an elasticity. The results ...
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### Best reports / data sources on economics flows / trade between US & China?

curious for any suggestions on reports or data sources on trade and flows between the US and China? In addition, the impact that the current political frictions could potentially have moving forward ...
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### How can I control for trade between UK and Australia in my difference-in-difference trade model?

I am doing a report on whether environmental regulation has an impact on trade, using a difference-in-difference model and seeing whether the EU Industrial Emissions Directive had an effect on UK ...
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### Does the UK have a trade agreement with Australia?

I'm assuming since the UK was a member of the EU, the EU was responsible for any kind of trade arrangements between the UK and Australia but I'm not entirely sure. Does the UK have an agreement with ...
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### If a Chinese person wants to buy an iPhone or any international goods, which GDP per capita would be a better indicator?

Which GDP per capita of a Chinese citizen would better reflect their affordability- Nominal GDP per capita or PPP GDP per capita of China? My question is would PPP would matter much in case of buying ...
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### Finding data on (estimated) trade cost elasticities of imports

I'm an undergrad student of economics, and I need to find estimates of the trade cost elasticity of the UK's imports for some homework. My instructors pointed me to the World Bank's databases, ...
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### Why do we have autarky price of mud pies equal to 0.5 of cheese, while it must be zero?

(It's assumed that we work with the Ricardian model) Absurdtopia is an autarky. Production of 1 mud pie requires 1 labor, while production of 1 cheese requires 2 labor. We know that price of 1 mud pie ...
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### Why do we say that trade and specialization according to comparative advantage lead to one-time increase in PPF of given country?

PPF shows us different combinations of goods that we would be able to produce if we employed existing resources of our country in the most efficient way. One thing to notice about PPF: It's ...
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### Heckscher-Ohlin with non homothetic preferences [duplicate]

Can someone tell me how I can show with an example that the Heckscher-Ohlin result does not necessarily hold when preferences are not homothetic. I was asked if it similar as a case in which the ...
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### How does protectionism harm the producers and workers in export sectors in the country implementing the protectionist policies?

According to Protectionism (Protectionism) also reduce trade and adversely affect consumers in general (by raising the cost of imported goods), and harm the producers and workers in export ...
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### Perfect multicollinearity when estimating a gravity model

everyone! I am estimating a gravity model in order to analyze the impacts of tighter environmental regulations on international trade. More specifically, I am analyzing Brazil's trade flow. My (...
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### Analyse the influence of interior demand and trade on exports

I would like to have a primer on how the current slowdown of the German economy is affecting its partners, for instance France, Spain and Italy. More specifically, if it goes mainly through Germany's ...
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### Is there a way to adjust trade data between China and EU member countries for the Rotterdam effect?

Basically Eurostat trade data for individual EU member countries with China seems to have some substantial artefacts probably because most EU imports from China arrive in Dutch ports, even though ...
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### How are trade deficits financed?

The usual answer is either "foreign debt" or "Foreign Direct Investment". But: Why does that make sense? And why wouldn't be financed otherwise like from importers taking out bank loans domestically ...
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### Alternatives to avoid sanctions

Recently we saw that EU and Iran devised an instrument called INSTEX to avoid dealing in dollars and hence avoid US sanctions. Similar thing is being planned between India and Russia (regarding S-400 ...
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### Historically has the “decoupling” of world trade from GDP not lead to (or deepened) a recession?

The ECB speaks (somewhat euphemistically, in my opinion) of a "decoupling" of world trade from "activity" (i.e. GDP) in Q1 2019: Historically, has it been the case that such a "decoupling" can last, ...
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### Why is the Australian dollar, often viewed by traders as a proxy for the Chinese economy?

The Australian dollar, often viewed by traders as a proxy for the Chinese economy, gained 0.3 per cent against its US counterpart. From: https://www.ft.com/content/b18d1c56-cf75-11e9-b018-...
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### Papers on International Trade and Environment

everyone. As a requirement to get my bachelor's in economics, I have to write a paper. The theme I picked is something along the lines of "the impact of environmental crimes and regulation on ...
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### Who paid the bill for cheap Chinese exports?

We have all enjoyed the flow of cheap Chinese imported goods, whether in the shops, or online. The shipping costs from China have always seemed very low. Now I see this note: Got notification ...
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### Where does overseas money from exports go?

I am a bit confused about foreign exchange reserves. I was reading this website (https://www.thebalance.com/foreign-exchange-reserves-3306258#targetText=Foreign%20exchange%20reserves%20are%20the,to%...
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### Derivation of aggregate demand function for Monopolistic Competition (based on Combes et. al, 2008)

A specialized question for those, who excel in monopolistic competition and modern trade theories. I am interested in a derivation of an aggregate demand function for a model of monopolistic ...
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### Why a Current Account deficit implies a Financial Account surplus [duplicate]

Every macro textbook out there states that if a country has a Current Account deficit, it must have a surplus in the Financial account, but I have not heard a convincing explanation. Imagine a ...
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### Whats the math behind calculating the price of cryptocurrency through supply and demand?

"The value of currencies (including most popular cryptocurrencies) is set by a market. Price rises or falls until the supply and demand of the currency are equalized" Why exchange rates of national ...
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### Why is trade deficit a good thing?

In general most economist agree that deficit is not a negative thing, but I have trouble understanding why For example if country A has 10\$and country A runs trade deficit to B of 2\$ per year, ...
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### Inflation leads to loss of gold reserves

I am reading Murray's Rothbard What has government done to our money? and this is his reasoning for inflation leading to loss of gold reserves to other countries (...
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### Why did no US politician start the trade war a decade earlier with China or possibly the Globe if it is a good thing to do? [closed]

Why did no US politician start the trade war with China (or possibly the Globe) a decade earlier if it is a good thing to do? I am asking for a list of reasons for why not.
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### Where to find information on tariffs when importing candles into the U.S.?

I am wondering where I can find information on tariffs when importing scented candles from States like China, India, Vietnam, Thailand into the U.S.? If the candles are soy wax and are packaged in ...
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### Characterizing nations in global commodity market

I'm not an economist, so I'm looking for help making sure I'm not reinventing the wheel, or if I am, that it's at least round. I've been set the task of modeling a multi-step supply chain using UN ...
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### Is the European Single Market a Free Trade Area?

The European Single Market is (obviously) a Single Market. Are Single Markets also free trade areas?
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### Does the gravity model of trade apply equally for goods and services?

Does the gravity model of trade apply equally for goods and services? Naively it would seem that the more ephemeral services would be less impacted by it?