Since changes in trade openness are typically confounded with other factors, it has been difficult to identify the … labor market consequences of increased international trade. The advent of the United States Interstate Highway System … provides a unique policy experiment, which I use to identify the effect of reducing trade barriers on the relative demand for …

Trade and investment can be effective means of implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. However …, stand-alone trade and investment liberalization policies aimed at enhancing economic development may have negative side …-effects on non-economic facets of sustainable development. As such, they are best to be accompanied by trade facilitation …

This study estimates the effect of trade facilitation measures implementation on trade costs in Asia and the Pacific … using data from the United Nations Global Survey on Trade Facilitation and Paperless Trade Implementation. Impact of … different sets of measures are considered, from a basic set of measures to ensure compliance with the World Trade Organization …

recent ARTNeT working papers as well as other relevant literature: (a) trade facilitation and regional trade agreements and … initiatives; (b) trade facilitation and customs valuation; and (c) trade facilitation and services. …

Trade and investment can be effective means of implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. However …, stand-alone trade and investment liberalization policies aimed at enhancing economic development may have negative side …-effects on non-economic facets of sustainable development. As such, they are best to be accompanied by trade facilitation …

This study estimates the effect of trade facilitation measures implementation on trade costs in Asia and the Pacific … using data from the United Nations Global Survey on Trade Facilitation and Paperless Trade Implementation. Impact of … different sets of measures are considered, from a basic set of measures to ensure compliance with the World Trade Organization …

significant even after we control for changes in the product composition of trade flows. We also find that the decline in trade w …

running trade deficits. Some people react to such trade deficits with doom and gloom; others cite them as evidence that … beyond our means. In “Trade Deficits Aren’t as Bad as You Think,” George Alessandria offers an alternative view: Trade …

firing restrictions. We explore the extent to which international trade alters this result. When economies trade, labor … market policies in one country spill over to other countries through a change in the terms of trade. This reduces the …