Using a unique French firm-level dataset, we study how international trade affects the wage bargaining process at the …

that there has so far been a moderate increase in actual protectionist measures to restrict trade through tariff and non … since the mid-2000s, and has possibly intensified since the start of the financial crisis. However, no World Trade … Organization (WTO) member has retreated into widespread trade restrictions or protectionism to date. Our model-based simulations …

The fact that crossing a political border dramatically reduces trade flows has been widely documented in the literature … the measured growth in world trade. We first show that trade statistics should be considered carefully when assessing … globalization over time, since the definition of trade partners varies over time. We document a sizeable resulting accounting …