Dynamic gains from trade can be an important conduit for increased firm-level innovation and productivity, both key … components of economic growth. This paper builds on previous research on the dynamic gains from trade by moving beyond a single … gains through the import of intermediate inputs and capital goods and systematically explores the specific impacts of non-trade …

-level trade and transport cost data and, in order to account for endogeneity, we exploit the exogenous variation in these costs … associated with the non-trade related closure of the main bridge connecting two countries. …

continuum of goods to show that trade liberalization causes higher unemployment in countries with comparative advantage in … contradicting evidence in the empirical literature on the impact of trade on unemployment. …

This report examines the different channels through which trade openness (and reforms to achieve it) can affect a … country’s food security. The overall conclusion is that trade openness has a positive net impact on food security, although … of trade protection. The challenge for policymakers is to design flanking policies which enable countries to reap …

Countries embarking on trade negotiations are not only seeking increased market access, but also, reduced market … trade agreements (RTAs) concluded by OECD and large emerging economies over the last decade. While there is a lively … discussion on strengthening transparency in the World Trade Organization (WTO), scant attention has been paid to the evolution of …

What influences the adoption of transparency obligations in trade agreements, and what are its effects? This paper uses … a new dataset on transparency provisions in over a hundred regional trade agreements (RTAs) to provide empirical … evidence of the political economy determinants of international transparency commitments, as well as the trade impact of …

This paper addresses the final steps to global free trade – what they might look like, what sort of political economy … here to stay; world trade is regulated by a motley assortment of unilateral, bilateral and multilateral trade agreements; 2 …) this motley assortment is not the best way to organise world trade. Moving to global duty-free trade will require a …

This article uses a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to investigate the impact of trade liberalization on … poverty in Bangladesh. The simulation results show that the complete removal of tariffs favours export-oriented sectors in the … economy. With trade liberalization, rural and urban areas experience an overall reduction in poverty in the short run. However …