Well, that took a while… 15 Aug 2013 | 03:13 am

In August 1935, Gottfrieb Haberler wrote (Theory of International Trade, Preface to the English Edition): [I]t seems to me that the theory of international trade, as outlined in the following pages, ...

Melitz and Redding on heterogeneous firms and gains from trade 6 Jun 2013 | 08:17 pm

In a recent VoxEU column, Marc Melitz and Stephen Redding describe the logic of Melitz (Ecma, 2003) and Arkolakis, Costinot, and Rodriguez-Clare (AER, 2012). Those should be familiar to Trade Diversio...

Follow @TradeDiversion on Twitter 15 May 2013 | 08:30 pm

You’ve no doubt noticed that recently I’ve only been posting once or twice per month. However, I am regularly sharing links and brief comments on Twitter, so you should follow @TradeDiversion. Recentl...

AFT on Railroads of the Raj 13 May 2013 | 06:40 pm

A Fine Theorem has a nice write-up of Dave Donaldson’s Railroads of the Raj. He’s put in more effort than I did when writing it up in 2009.

Harry Johnson on Staffan Linder 30 Apr 2013 | 06:40 am

I haven’t seen a book review like this in some time. Harry Johnson didn’t hold back while expressing his opinion of Linder (1961). This is the closing paragraph of his rather blunt five-page review: I...

KAL on current trade politics 15 Feb 2013 | 07:55 am

The Chinese government didn’t allocate its MFA quotas efficiently 15 Jan 2013 | 10:06 pm

Amit Khandelwal, Pete Schott, and Shang-Jin Wei have a nice VoxEU column describing their forthcoming AER article on Chinese textile exports under the Multifibre Arrangementquotas. In short, inefficie...

Mead and Drezner on EU-US trade prospects 11 Jan 2013 | 06:20 pm

Alan Beattie and Joshua Chaffin in the FT: This month, a working group led by EU trade commissioner Karel De Gucht and US trade representative Ron Kirk is likely to suggest starting formal negotiation...

John McLaren – International Trade 5 Jan 2013 | 08:39 pm

I haven’t seen the inside of John McLaren’s new international trade textbook, but I really like the cover:

Trade at VoxEU 24 Dec 2012 | 01:22 am

Some recent VoxEU columns: In Belgian firm-level data, a smaller percentage of services-producing firms export than goods-producing firms. Exporting entry and exit rates are higher in services than go...