) bilateral trade openness reduces bilateral cultural distance; (ii) the more differentiated the products, the more trade reduces … cultural distance; (iii) trade openness has a lock-in effect on culture. Third, we test the model using an instrumental … bilateral trade openness translates into a 43% standard deviation decrease in bilateral cultural distance. …

The paper surveys the interactions between aid and trade, distinguishing between policies and outcomes as well as … recipient’s welfare via the trade channel, before turning to the empirical and institutional literature on the topic. It …

What is the impact of terrorism on trade through higher security at the borders? We set up a theory which shows that … the impact goes not only from terrorism to trade; higher trade with a partner might, in turn, increase the probability of … products. These results suggest that security to prevent terrorism does matter for trade. …

In this paper, we study the impact of transnational terrorism diffusion on security and trade. We set up a simple … trade. The idea is that security measures, which impede trade, are directed both against the source country of terror and … find (1) a direct negative impact of transnational terrorism on trade; (2) an indirect negative impact emanating from …

Economists tend to agree that international trade liberalization brings significant gains from trade to countries … that the current sharing of the gains from trade is ‘unfair’ and unevenly distributed across and within countries. This … complaints, one should move beyond the existence of the gains from trade (static and/or dynamic) and one should pay more …

The paper studies attitudes toward immigration and trade using an opinion survey of two thousand French individuals. We … find that, beyond usual Stolper-Samuelson effects (skilled individuals are more pro-free trade than others, as in other … countries) attitudes toward trade and immigration are correlated and both are ideologically loaded. Right-wing affiliation is …

This paper considers a dynamic North South model of international trade and innovations in which firms can endogenously … rights between the two regions, innovating firms face a trade-off between delocalization in the South and more secure … endogenous technological bias towards skilled labour technologies. We discuss the implications of this trade induced …

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