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. …

migration and trade. This paper aims to check the effect of such restrictions on the unemployment of unskilled labor in the …. In case of trade restriction, however, the rise or fall in unemployment depends on both the structure of the economy and …

Dixit and Stiglitz (1977) with applications in international trade by Krugman (1979,1980), by modeling fixed and variable … pattern of trade between varieties and output per variety, which is indeterminate in a standard single good Dixit …

This paper argues that distance is not necessarily harmful to trade. It is shown that there may be an increase in the … production and volume of trade if time zones of the trading nations are non-overlapping. This implies a positive effect of … distance on the volume of trade in general and virtual trade in particular. It is also shown that exploitation of time zone …

This short note tries to argue that distance is not necessarily harmful for trade. It is shown that there may be an … increase in the production and volume of trade if time zones of the trading nations are non-overlapping. This implies a … positive effect of distance on the volume of trade. It is also shown that exploitation of time zone difference raises welfare …

Dixit and Stiglitz (1977) with applications in international trade by Krugman (1979,1980), by modeling fixed and variable … pattern of trade between varieties and output per variety, which is indeterminate in a standard single good Dixit …