This paper provides new estimates of international trade in services for mode 3 (foreign affiliates’sales in a host … country) for four major OECD countries, thanks to the harmonisation of FATS statistics with conventional international trade … ones (trade recorded in the balances of payments – modes 1 and 2), using the CEPII’s exhaustive CHELEM-BAL database. The …

The majority of independent nations today were part of empires in 1945. Using bilateral trade data from 1948 to 2006 …, we examine the effect of independence on post-colonial trade. On average, there is little short run effect of trade with … the colonizer (metropole). However, after three decades trade declines more than 60%. We also find that trade between …

dynamic general equilibrium model, the contribution of migration policy in reducing the tax burden associated with the aging …-medium term that the migration policy is selective (in favor of more skilled workers). In the long term, beneficial effects of a … selective policy may disappear. But the financial gains from more consequent migration flows are relatively moderated in …