brought about by trade liberalization. …

This paper examines international trade in tainted food and other low-quality products. Wefirst find that for a large … class of environments, free trade is the trading system that conveysthe highest incentives to produce non-tainted high …-quality goods by foreign exporters.However, free trade cannot prevent the export of tainted products, and the condition fortainting …

-005-2933-4">'De Economist'</A>, 2005, 153(2), 139-165.<P> How much does a nation spend on resources to 'grease the wheels of trade … traders. This image was derived in the seventeenth century from successes in long distance trade, shipping and financial … in enhancing transactions cities or agglomerations remain important, suggesting that face-to-face trade remains an …

We empirically investigate the responsiveness of international trade to the stringency of environmental regulation … equilibrium model of trade and pollution nesting the pollution haven motive for trade with the factor endowment motive. We analyze … show that trade patterns in ‘dirty’ commodities are jointly determined by relative factor endowments and environmental …

This paper studies the intangible costs of international trade by extending the basic gravity equation with measures of … cultural and institutional distance, and institutional quality. Analyzing a sample of bilateral trade flows between 92 … countries in 1999, we find that institutional distance has a negative effect on bilateral trade, presumably because the …

See also 'The Euro Effect on Trade is not as Large as commonly thought' in the <I>Oxford Bulletin of Economics and … effect on intra-EMU trade. Existing studies examine this suspicion indirectly using non-EMU data and report ambiguous results … bilateral exports, we find that the euro has significantly increased trade, with an effect of 4% in the first year and …

(Ricardian, HOS, Ricardo-Viner), in public finance, trade, growth, development, and macroeconomics. Yet unlike the earlier models …

By combining two large data sets (on international trade flows and cross-border mergers and acquisitions – M&As), we …

We examine interaction between trade in goods and market power in domestic trade and distribution, developing a model … that highlights this interaction. Theory points to an expected linkage between service sector competition and goods trade … direct impact of tariffs on trade flows. …