significant gains for liberalization of trade through the World Trade Organization. It is not clear that the reported gains are at … multilateral trade liberalization are very small even in a formal New Keynesian model incorporating economies with significant …

comes from the use of an index newly constructed using data on trade in parts and components to measure inter …-industry variations in the degree of international vertical specialization (fragmentation intensity of trade). It also employs a … methodology designed to embody peculiarities of Japan's fragmentation trade pattern. While the findings of existing studies are …

exported. We propose a relative measure of VS-based trade that combines information from Input-Output matrices and … international trade data, producing results for a large sample of individual countries and geographical areas with a detailed … product breakdown over the 1967-2005 period. This measure identifies a country’s trade flow as associated with VS activities …

Portuguese economy. The empirical trade literature suggests different measures of fragmentation, changing the scope of the … Input-Output matrices together with international trade data and those that look at specific elements of international … transactions, namely trade in parts and components and outward-inward processing trade. In this paper, we survey the different …

international trade increasing competition and therefore the price elasticity of product demand, exporters are predicted to have …

main determinant of the increase in the non-manual wage bill share. By contrast, demand changes associated to trade have …

increase in the relative demand for skilled workers. By contrast, demand changes associated to trade have mitigated such a rise …