information contributed to the breakdown in trade of asset-backed securities during the recent financial crisis, and to evaluate …

Open regionalism and trade cooperation between the world’s two largest developing countries, the People’s Republic … of China (PRC) and India, can foster outward-oriented development and intra-regional trade based on comparative advantage … and available factor endowments. In view of the recent wave of worldwide subregional and bilateral trade cooperation, and …

then used to estimate the effect of reducing tariffs on welfare, trade, and export participation. The authors find sizeable … gains to moving to free trade. Contrary to the view that the gains to lowering tariffs are larger in models with export … to trade reform in models with fixed costs and overstate the welfare gains in models without fixed costs. With fixed …

A large body of empirical research finds that a pair of regions within a country tends to trade 10 to 20 times as much … as an otherwise identical pair of regions across countries. In the context of the standard trade models, the large … Ricardian model of intra-national and international trade, and shows how endogenous vertical specialization magnifies the …

and Caribbean (LAC) countries, their trade and investment ties are still in their very early stages, and the … complementarily of factor endowments dominates their bilateral trade pattern. By examining the determinants of trade performance of … investment(FDI) based intra-industry trade. Policies that encourage deep economic integration would help Latin America firms …

The 1994 Marrakesh Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization (the WTO Agreement), requires each WTO member to …

increasing number of social clauses in trade regimes to address poor working conditions in developing countries. Generalized …

This paper gives insights into the possible trade creating effects of service trade liberalization via Mode 4. In … costs for merchandise trade between home and host country. Exploiting data on H-1B beneficiaries from different origins in … the United States and using a gravity model of trade, we find significantly positive effects of temporary movements of …