This paper develops a growth theory that accounts for the evolution of trade policy, underlying internal class … effects of international trade, this paper finds a prominent interaction between trade policy and the pattern of economic … trade policy. In contrast, land- abundant countries, especially those with concentrated landownership, tend to fail to take …

.S. tariffs on the Democratic vote share. The effects are estimated with fixed effects and Two-Stage Least Squares based on data … from the House of Representatives from the years 1982 to 2000. Weighted trade policy proxy for each congressional district … are constructed and shown to be significant. Overall, a 10% decrease of weighted tariffs leads to a 12% decrease in the …

through administrative procedures such as antidumping enforcement will increase as more traditional forms such as tariffs and … quotas are lowered under multilateral trade agreements. This paper is the first empirical study of the role of tariff … tariff concessions made during the Uruguay Round trade negotiations and the filing of antidumping petitions, with particular …

Our paper decomposes knowledge-diffusing trade flows and estimates their impacts separately. Overall, trade generates … positive knowledge spillovers, but the effects of intra-industry trade are ambiguous. With regard to sectoral import … significant positive spillover effects of intra-industry trade that corresponds to international outsourcing. …

If, in international agreements, governments “link'' trade to environmental policy (or other issues with non … standards at the expense of higher tariffs). However, if the linked policies are not independent in the governments' objective … promotes more cooperation in both issues (higher environmental standards and lower tariffs) than no-linkage. The policies are …

expenditures on tradables and non-tradables, trade openness and real interest differentials. On the basis of these fundamentals … misalignment appears to be small as well. The paper also discusses the implications of these findings with regard to trade …

This paper is an empirical investigation on the relationship between trade globalization and political liberalization … prediction that political liberalization could discourage trade and trade could foster democracy. …