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 …

The consequences on international trade of country breaks-up have received an increasing attention. This paper … investigates the effect of independence on bilateral trade of former French colonies with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. Thanks to … an original dataset including data on pre-independence bilateral trade we obtain more accurate results. We also show that …

This paper is dedicated to a theoretical and empirical survey of the relationship between trade, growth, poverty and … therefore estimated the direct impact of trade on income or income growth. But this raises the problem of endogeneity of trade … to income, knowing that openness defined according to trade cannot be easily related to trade policies. As it is shown in …

The consequences on international trade of colonial rule have received an increasing attention. This paper investigates … the effect of independence on trade with a focus on former French colonies. Thanks to an original dataset including data … on pre-independence bilateral trade for former French colonies, we obtain more accurate results on the effect of …

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

The fact that crossing a political border dramatically reduces trade flows has been widely documented in the literature … the measured growth in world trade. We first show that trade statistics should be considered carefully when assessing … globalization over time, since the definition of trade partners varies over time. We document a sizeable resulting accounting …

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 …