Theoretical and empirical research in economics suggests that bilateral migration triggers bilateral trade through a … number of channels. This paper assesses the functional form of the impact of migration on trade flows in a quasi … elasticity of trade to migration is quite high, and it declines to zero at about 4,000 immigrants. If migration stocks exceed …

We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade … more likely to be supported by a simultaneous referendum on trade and migration than in one on trade alone? The key to our … analysis is the recognition that for free trade, migration, or trade and migration to be adopted, the relevant policy must pass …

Previous empirical research has assumed that goods trade responds to goods trade preferentialism only, while other … forms of preferentialism – such as services trade or investment preferentialism – are irrelevant for goods trade. This paper …: goods, services, and investment) at the intensive and extensive country margins of bilateral goods trade. …

interdependencies that are brought about by (horizontal) trade in final goods and (vertical) trade in intermediate goods (within and …

been done by analyzing gross trade flows related to offshore activities using gravity equations augmented by ad hoc … to theoretically unmotivated attempts to allow for both complete and incomplete specialization influences on gross trade … patterns. This view reveals that countries’ multilateral specialization incentives drive bilateral trade, corresponding to and …

infrastructure matters for the pattern of trade of developing countries, and can help explaining their low level of regional … integration. The main idea is that, to the extent that it can be used not just to export natural resources but also to trade other … commodities, this infrastructure may bias a country’s structure of transport costs in favor of overseas trade, and to the …

–horizontal versus vertical– within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of … investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture trade integration by estimating the magnitude and evolution of the home … robust relationship of complementarity between trade integration and FDI provides at least one argument in support of …