The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) has continued to be fiercely debated … regression model, based on the general specification for the gravity model for international trade, is estimated using panel data …

The EU and the US have started negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement (TTIP) which …

international trade increasing competition and therefore the price elasticity of product demand, exporters are predicted to have …

The East African Customs Union was established in 2005 with the aim of increasing intraregional trade. The Customs … Union protocol commits member states to eliminate non-tariff barriers (NTBs) to intraregional trade. However, several NTBs … are still applied by member states. This study identifies the existing NTBs on maize and beef trade and quantifies their …

China’s agricultural and trade policies have been shifting despite little change in policy objectives. This paper …

This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United … clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional exposure to trade competition from China. While the impacts of … technology are present throughout the United States, the impacts of trade tend to be more geographically concentrated, owing in …

In this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade flows, using Italian panel data covering very …

misalignments. Intra-regional trade – both with North Africa and the rest of the continent – together with greater orientation to …