general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine cross … of trade. Regression results suggest that import protection makes income distribution worse for countries in labour …

This article reviews key recent literature on the effects of trade liberalization on poverty in developing countries … that liberalization has very heterogeneous effects on poor households, depending, inter alia, on what trade policies are … suggested several ways in which intrasectoral wage inequality is increased by trade, but this research generally does not …

We estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining income levels around the … world, using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of … institutions are controlled for, trade is almost always insignificant, and often enters the income equation with the 'wrong' (i …

The relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI), trade openness and economic growth in host countries remains … indicate that there is no significant Granger causality from FDI to economic growth, from economic growth to FDI, from trade to … economic growth and from economic growth to trade in the short run. Even though there is a widespread belief that FDI can …

A computable general equilibrium model of production and trade within and between rich and poor economies is developed … in which the interaction between trade and environmental policies is analysed. The shape of iso-emissions curves, defined … policy. However, where policy is efficient there may exist an important trade-off, evaluated and illustrated here, between …

on topical issues of international trade and migration. The first set of papers focuses on European integration, applying … the trade effects of WTO membership, with special focus on the so-called extensive country margin, where new international …

clout in international commercial negotiations. Yet, since the World Trade Organization's (WTO's) creation in 1995, it is … difficult to point to a string of successes for the European Commission's (EC's) often beleaguered trade negotiators. Even the … abandon its moratorium on negotiating new free trade agreements seems more of a stop-gap measure to maintain some negotiating …

undertaken by the European Union and the United States, using the Trade Restrictiveness Index (TRI) as the tariff aggregator. We … take the 2001 bound tariffs as the starting point and attempt to assess how much liberalization in agriculture could be …

these wedges to calculate the impact of the Smoot Hawley tariffs on total factor productivity and welfare. In our benchmark … parameterization, we find that tariff protection reduced TFP by 1.2% relative to free trade prior to the Smoot Hawley legislation. TFP … substitution elasticities yields a TFP decline of almost 5% relative to free trade, with an additional reduction due to SH of 0 …