This paper documents patterns in international trade costs in processed foods for a large cross-section of developing … and developed countries, during the 1976-2000 period. A trade costs index is inferred from a micro-founded gravity … equation that incorporates bilateral `iceberg?trade costs. For 2000, the weighted average tariff equivalent of trade costs …

. This paper provides a detailed analysis of trade flows between the two emerging economies and investigates on which type of … trade impact of those measures that were imposed during the Great Recession, using monthly data on exports from China to … India. The use of monthly data is relatively new to the literature and allows a detailed examination of the trade impact of …

employment growth and of size and job reallocation. Finally, we establish that strong foreign trade links force firms to shed … labour more aggressively and to engage in more restructuring when trade is directed to and originating from Western economies …. This disciplining function is absent when the trade flows are confined to CIS countries. …

We estimate how trade openness affects the relationship between wages, labour productivity and foreign wages using … trade costs declined. We show this counter-intuitive result is as expected when wages are set by a monopoly union with a … preference for wages relative to employment. Trade liberalisation then leads to more wage discipline by forcing unions to set …

agglomeration rents in form of higher wages. As agglomeration rents are a hump-shaped function of trade freeness in the larger … country this implies the same non-monotonic relationship between wages and the level of trade freeness. We then investigate …

relocate internationally. If countries are suffciently symmetric lower foreign wages and lower trade costs necessarily lead to … countries it holds that small increases in market size or trade costs makes union wages more sensitive to the foreign wage level. …

Present paper studies the within-country regional effects of trade liberalization in transition countries. We argue … they have liberalized their trade with the EU. First, we show that in four out of five transition countries there is a … significant u-shaped adjustment pattern of regional wages after they opened up to foreign trade. And second, we find robust …