This paper investigates the welfare gains from European trade integration, and the role of comparative advantage in … the 2000s to a counterfactual scenario in which East European countries are closed to trade. For West European countries …, the mean welfare gain from trade integration with Eastern Europe is 0.16%, rang- ing from zero for Portugal to 0.4% for …

This paper considers the impact of liberalized trade policy on child labor in a developing country. While trade … liberalization entails an increase in the relative price of the exported product, trade theory provides ambiguous predictions on how … results suggest that the use of trade sanctions on exports from developing countries to eradicate child labor is unlikely to …

desired result. In 2000, the United States dropped trade restrictions on a broad list of products through the African Growth …

Mexico's recent trade reform. In particular, we examine whether trade reform has shifted employment towards industries that …

in trade agreements increase the likelihood and restrictiveness of NTBs. We also provide a structural estimate that …

We explore the relationship between greater exposure to trade (as measured by openness) and child labor in a cross … country setting. Our methodology accounts for the fact that trade flows are endogenous to child labor (and labor standards … more generally) by examining the relationship between child labor and variation in trade based on geography. We find that …

more than half of gross profits. We use our results to simulate the effects of a counterfactual decline in bilateral trade …

This paper compares the responses of intra- and extra-firm trade to exchange rate changes. It does so both to inform … features of trade behavior such as long adjustment lags, the large impact of distance, and the presence of significant home …

Extending McCallum's (1995) result, based on a gravity model of 1988 trade flows, that a typical Canadian province … trade patterns compare with those of other provinces. The results, based on revised data for 1988, 1989 and 1990, show that … the multiple is even greater. Thus trade between Quebec and the United States appears to be an even less viable …