In the economic literature it is generally found that trade openness affects environment through various channels …. While the mechanisms through which trade is associated with pollution are largely investigated theoretically and empirically …, the role played by each trade component has not yet received enough attention. This paper attempts to bridge this gap by …

combine trade, aid and investment, which may create 'lock-in' effects. China's trade and investment focus on the commodities …

This paper investigates the determinants of the shape of regional trade agreements (RTAs). Because the world is … constituted by independent political entities, international trade flows take place in a system where property rights are … unsecured and RTAs should be understood as regulation mechanisms. In this theoretical framework, trade and security issues …

study generalises Davis' (1998) idea according to which the institutions of the trade partners matter also for a country … evidence that the interactions between bilateral trade and relative labour market regulations affect the equilibrium …

on trade patterns and industrialization. We propose a multi-industry and two-country trade model featuring demand …

The paper assesses the trade-creating impact of foreign-born residents on the international imports and exports of the … French regions where they are settled. The pro-trade effect of immigrants is investigated along two intertwined dimensions …: the complexity of traded goods and the quality of institutions in partner countries. The trade-enhancing impact of …

changed the geography of trade within France, with a particular focus on the trends experienced by border regions. We support … border regions trade on average 72% more with nearby countries than predicted by the gravity norm. They perform even better … partly due to a decreasing propensity of foreign affliates to trade with their home country. This trade reorientation is less …

Thanks to its empirical success, the gravity approach is widely used to explain trade patterns between countries. In … this article we question the simple application of this approach to product/sector-level trade on two grounds. First, we … expenditures are not strictly equal to sector productions because some trade costs are incurred outside the sector of interest …

the beggar-thy-neighbor view: (i) undervaluation of the domestic currency improves the domestic trade balance; and most … importantly, (ii) undervaluation of the domestic currency negatively impacts the other countries' trade balances. Starting from … currency undervaluation is robustly and significantly associated with an improvement of the domestic trade balance. We also …