(Version 6.05) and the LINKAGE model of the global economy are used to examine the impact first of current merchandise trade …

the lack of fiscal capacity in Latin American countries. Instead, we develop a simple political economy game where the …

We explore the political economy of trade and labor mobility in a Ricardian world. We combine a Ricardian economy with … a simple international political economy model as a basis for the determination of trade and labor mobility policies. We … political equilibrium that blocks free labor mobility. We verify our main results under several variants of a Ricardian economy …

a simple open-economy model. The critical point is that income taxation induces a rich-poor/elite-workers political …, changes in trade policy are associated with political transitions. Coups (democratizations) open up the economy if and only if …