This book presents an econometric model that links the number of broadband users in a country to its volume of international trade in goods and services. The model indicates that the growth in broadband use between 2000 and 2011 increased a country's openness to trade (measured by the ratio of their total trade to their GDP) by 4.21 percentage points on average, with much larger effects in high income countries (a 10.21 percentage point increase on average) than in developing countries (a 1.67 percentage point increase on average). We also use the econometric model to project how each...

This book measures the strength of intellectual property rights in different countries using an econometric model of U.S. cross-border receipts of royalties and license fees. The econometric estimates are correlated with country indices of intellectual property rights in the literature, but they are more comprehensive, detailed, and up-to-date than alternative indices.

This paper investigates the effects of NAFTA preferences on labor market outcomes in the United States. First, we review prior literature that has quantified these economic effects over the last twenty years. Then we turn from the past to the present. We ask how NAFTA preference margins affect U.S. labor markets today. We use a CGE model and detailed data on NAFTA preference margins to estimate these economic effects.

This paper presents an econometric model that links the number of broadband users in a country to its volume of international trade in goods and services. The model indicates that the growth in broadband use between 2000 and 2011 increased a country's openness to trade (measured by the ratio of their total trade to their GDP) by 4.21 percentage points on average, with much larger effects in high income countries (a 10.21 percentage point increase on average) than in developing countries (a 1.67 percentage point increase on average). We also use the econometric model to project how each...

This paper measures the strength of intellectual property rights in different countries using an econometric model of U.S. cross-border receipts of royalties and license fees. The econometric estimates are correlated with country indices of intellectual property rights in the literature, but they are more comprehensive, detailed, and up-to-date than alternative indices.

I estimate the effect of import restrictions on cross-border trade in services using a sector-level gravity model. Then I use the model to simulate the expansion in U.S. services exports that would result from completely eliminating these restrictions in several major U.S. trade partners.

The regulatory compliance costs of manufacturing firms often take the form of fixed costs of production, and they may reduce the firms' competitiveness, including their competitiveness in export markets. Yet most models of the impact of regulatory policy on trade flows are based on economic models with constant returns to scale and perfect competition that are not structured to allow for fixed costs of production. If, to make due, policy modelers represent regulatory costs as purely variable costs, then this assumption will dictate the prediction of the economic analysis: an increase in...