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April 26, 2023

New Tools for Value Chain Analysis

We introduce two novel tools to enhance our understanding of international trade. Through the trade cost index, we compute the complete trade costs within a value chain. With the new gravity model that also incorporates...

April 25, 2023

World Trade Monitor February 2023

World merchandise trade declined with 0.9% in February 2023 compared to January, following an increase of 0.3% in January compared to December of last year.

World Trade February 2023
April 25, 2023

The CPB World Trade Monitor: technical description (update April 2023)

The CPB World Trade Monitor (WTM) is an instrument for bringing together, aggregating, and summarizing worldwide monthly data on international trade and industrial production. Its purpose is to report monthly...

April 18, 2023

Climate policy hardly harms firms

Entrepreneurs seem to be adapting their business operations to climate policy, instead of relocating their business to countries without or with less stringent climate policies. There is little to no evidence that...

Business park Pernis with various factories
April 18, 2023

Carbon costs and industrial firm performance: Evidence from international microdata

Entrepreneurs seem to be adapting their business operations to climate policy. There is little to no evidence that climate policy has depressed the profit, productivity or turnover of an average industrial firm.

Business park Pernis with various factories
March 24, 2023

World Trade Monitor January 2023

World merchandise trade slightly declined (-0.1%) in January 2023 compared to the previous month, following a decline of 2.8% in December of last year compared to November. Most noteworthy are a decline in imports in the United Kingdom of -9.3% and in China of -2.5%. Chinese exports also fell back: -1.0%.

World Trade January 2023
February 24, 2023

World trade grew in 2022, despite the war in Ukraine

In December 2022, world trade decreased with 0.9% compared to November 2022, according to the monthly World Trade Monitor of the CPB. Over the whole of 2022, world trade has grown by 3....

World trade including December 2022
February 24, 2023

World Trade Monitor December 2022

In December 2022, world trade decreased with 0.9% compared to November 2022, according to the monthly World Trade Monitor of the CPB. Over the whole of 2022, world trade has grown by 3.2%, despite Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

January 25, 2023

World Trade Monitor November 2022

The CPB World Trade Monitor shows that the volume of world trade decreased 2.5% in November, having decreased 1.4% in October (initial estimate -1.6%).

World Trade November 2022
December 23, 2022

World Trade Monitor October 2022

World merchandise trade volume decreased by 1.6% in October 2022 compared to September, following a 0.1% increase in September. Global industrial production also declined with 0.6% in October, compared to September. Both imports and exports have fallen globally, particularly in the eurozone and advanced Asia.

World Trade October 2022