This paper uncovers a counter-intuitive effect of international trade on female labor shares: whenever trade expands … gap and causes a decrease in aggregate female labor shares. Based on instrumented U.S.-Mexican trade flows, we provide …

Empirical research on the linkage between trade openness and productivity growth takes center stage in most studies in … search for the effects of trade liberalization on economic progress. This is true for both the firm level and for aggregate … analyses. There exist various channels through which trade influences national productive structures and creates incentives for …

mobility, in which countries trade industrial goods due to the (Armington) assumption that production of different goods is … produced units of each good, endogenously determine each country’s equilibrium pattern of employment, production, and trade. I …

Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), there is still much dispute about the optimal level of …

This paper contributes to trade diversification literature by comparing changes in relative (i.e. assessed in … highly disaggregated trade statistics (4963 product lines) for 163 countries (1988-2010) and find that, despite differences …

This paper explores official trade data to identify patterns of smuggling in international trade. Our main measure of … interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the … with the level of corruption in both partner countries. This finding supports the hypothesis that trade gaps partly …

countries. In each country, the incumbent autocrat will cater to the preferences of the elites when setting trade policy and the … manufacturing sector. This, in turn, can lead to a shift in the comparative advantage, a decision to open up to trade and an inflow …

positively associated with recipient-donor exports as well. That is, aid increases bilateral trade flows in both directions. Our … disaggregating aid to specifically study the effects from trade-related assistance (Aid for Trade), the positive correlation shows up … relations between aid and trade seems robust to changes in specification and time-periods, it is intrinsically hard to provide …