The establishment of the currently negotiated Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between EU and Ukraine is the next significant … developing countries face some costs associated with trade liberalization, this paper contributes to the literature by analyzing … trade liberalization, as the results vary significantly across the scenarios. In general, we find that tariff elimination …

We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade … free trade areas more likely to support full integration than states without free trade? Second, is trade liberalization … more likely to be supported by a simultaneous referendum on trade and migration than in one on trade alone? The key to our …

Previous studies by Freund & Weinhold (2004) and others have highlighted the trade promoting effect of the Internet … resistance. We employ a gravity framework to assess the role of Internet adoption on trade within OECD countries over the period … 1990-2010. We find that when multilateral resistance is controlled for, the Internet has a less clear cut effect on trade …

This study compares alternative measures of the potential and actual pollution content of China’s trade using an … were produced locally in China. A less positive, assessment of the environmental impact of China’s trade emerges, however …

and skills) of the regions of China to affect China’s specialization and trade patterns. It does so using both the lens … condition to identify the violation of factor price equalization across regions, and direct evidence on regional trade and … sufficiently lumpy as recently as 2004 to affect it pattern of international trade. …

This paper argues that international trade should affect local organization of production in a systematic way. By using …, entrepreneurship and outsourcing compared to the import-competing sector in a typical labor abundant country. Liberal trade regime will … between trade and productivity. This is the second elementary proposition. …

trade and FDI are found to have significant impact on the upsurge of labour productivity growth in BRICS, where the …

of trade and financial openness. Using a large crosssection of 91 countries covering the period 1985-2004, we establish … two main empirical regularities. Both higher trade and financial openness i) reduce central bank?s inflation bias …

This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the impact of trade on income. First, we use heterogeneous … trade on income for 81 developed and developing countries, both for the sample as a whole and for each individual country …. Second, we use a general-to-specific variable selection approach to identify important determinants of the effect of trade on …

In the trade-technology-wage debate, the effects of the various forms of technical progress on relative factor prices …, which allows for any discrete number of sectors and countries integrated via trade flows. Technologies are country- and …