This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and … higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son …) have increased in response to trade liberalization. Thus, altered expectations about future returns from daughters relative …

This paper examines the relative contribution of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP growth for North …-South trade-related technology diffusion. The measure of foreign R&D used in the literature on trade-related technology diffusion … imposes identical contributions of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP. We allow these contributions to differ and …

) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry …-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and input-output relations in the South. The main findings are: i … variables – education, governance or openness – result in virtuous growth cycles. These are smallest under an increase in trade …

dynamic viewpoint by examining the impact of trade with Japan, North America and the EU on technology diffusion and TFP in … regional: Korea (Mexico) (Poland) benefits mainly from trade with Japan (North America) (the EU); and ii) the dynamic version …

consumers has inspired the development of a new brand of trade theory, the theory of heterogeneous firms and trade. The … framework to bring out key lessons of this recent research. We address the gains from trade, country asymmetries involving … technology potentials, market sizes, trade openness and various business conditions as well as the international repercussions …

characteristics of each unit. We implement panel data econometric techniques to characterize bilateral trade flows between … results provide clear evidence in favor of the traditional trade theory based on comparative advantage which suggests a …

The main goal of regionalization is the creation of free trade areas and the guarantee for countries to accede to a … widened market. Many studies dealing with the effects of regional free trade agreements on trade flows already exist in the … of regionalization. However, the effects of agreements on trade were sometimes contradictory in those studies. These …

The expansion of regionalism has spawned an extensive theoretical literature analysing the effects of Free Trade … Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU … effects on trade flows by treating the agreement variable as endogenous. Our theoretical framework is the gravity model, and …