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 …

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 …

At least since 1750 when Baron de Montesquieu declared "peace is the natural effect of trade," a number of economists … and political scientists espoused the notion that trade among nations leads to peace. Employing resources wisely to …. Specialization based on comparative advantage leads to gains from trade. If political conflict leads to a diminution of trade, then …

This paper offers a medium-term perspective for analysing the trade openness.inequality relationship in Latin America … estimation of the association between trade openness and income distribution over the 30-year period. Our central conclusion in … this regard is that greater trade openness is associated with contemporaneous increases in inequality in the region. The …

countries while simultaneously decreasing the likelihood of severe precipitation deficits in Tanzania. Trade restrictions, like …

increased international trade. This study tests two theories as to why democracies might trade more. First, political freedom … trade more. Second, democracy implies higher quality governance either through institutions or policy-making procedures. I … utilize a bilateral gravity trade model covering approximately 150 countries from 1950 to 1999, with fixed effects for time …