This paper addresses the final steps to global free trade – what they might look like, what sort of political economy … here to stay; world trade is regulated by a motley assortment of unilateral, bilateral and multilateral trade agreements; 2 …) this motley assortment is not the best way to organise world trade. Moving to global duty-free trade will require a …

is strong evidence that trade liberalization promotes growth by boosting investment in physical capital. Because European … integration has substantially liberalized European trade, we conclude that it has promoted European growth. We find much less … econometric support for trade-induced technology-led growth. Nonetheless cross-country data reveals a rough correlation between …

the currency union trade effect as an example. We generalize Anderson-Van Wincoop’s multilateral trade resistance factor …-varying country dummies with omitted determinants of bilateral trade being dealt with by time-invariant pair dummies. …

Many studies have found a positive correlation between trade and growth, but do not attempt to identify the economic … mechanisms involved. This paper attempts to identify one of the mechanisms linking trade and growth. In particular, we present a … novel theoretical model that establishes a link between trade liberalization and investment-led growth. Estimating equations …

the early trade and growth models. The approach - inspired by Tobin's q - is merely a change of state variables and re … include trade barriers. The latter allows study of incremental policy reform rather than mere shifts from autarky to free … trade (or small deviations from free trade) as in the early literature. …

prohibitive trade barriers, the symmetric equilibrium is unstable as long as workers’ discount rates are not too high. It also …

This Paper considers tax competition and tax harmonization in the presence of agglomeration forces and falling trade …

This paper examines the role of the burden of proof (BoP) in National Treatment (NT) disputes under trade agreements …