There is a well-established literature on border effects covering trade between regions separated by a land border … free trade agreements, the latter is a geographical border that affects regions within the same country and cannot be … reduced in a similar way. Both types of borders produce similar effects upon trade, calling for a modification of the trade …

challenge the view that greater openness to trade automatically leads to improved firm entry institutions. My model enables … calculating business entry impediments whereas lobbying game produces structural estimates of the counterfactual levels of trade … extensive margin and asymmetries in technology and trade costs. Importantly, the model demonstrates that startling differences …

The paper uses a gravity model to examine the role of corruption in the direction of trade in a data set comprising … membership of the RTAs does not always increase bilateral trade whereas reducing a country's corruption does tend to increase … trade flows. The results suggest that EU membership, with the associated improvement in the perceived level of corruption …

The paper analyses sectoral patterns of intra-Asian trade for selected Asian countries as well as for sub … extra-Asian trade, almost all sample countries concentrate their intra-Asian exports more on non-manufactures. Within … manufactures, resource-intensive goods still play a larger role in intra-Asian trade than in trade outside Asia. This reflects both …

We develop a new model of trade in which educational institutions drive comparative advantage and determine the … support of human capital choices to demonstrate that freer trade can induce crowding out of the middle occupations towards the … gains from trade may be non-monotonic in workers' ability, and middle ability agents can lose the most from trade …

This paper investigates Samuelson's (JEP, 2004) argument that technical progress of the trade partner may hurt the home …

the impact of trade on both dimensions of income distribution, this paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing debate on … results emerge. Firstly, the distributional effects of trade are highly sensitive to even minor changes to the assumption of … the 2 x 2 trade model. This suggests that due attention should be paid to the choice of the structural model. Secondly …

Preferential trade agreements are mushrooming in Asia. However, they have not been facilitating intra-regional trade as … parcel of all preferential agreements - have resulted in low utilization rates in Asia. The key driver of trade integration … in Asia has been the rise of China, and not preferential trade agreements. In the last two decades, Chinas has managed to …

help to shed light on the main factors influencing the euro effect on trade flows. We intend to verify whether these … heterogeneity. Our preliminary results indicate some heterogeneity at country level. Despite statistically pro-trade effects in the … pro-trade effects are mainly concentrated in scale intensive industries. Industrial specialization and location of these …