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. …

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

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 …

that affect conflict, including measures of trade and democracy. …

This Paper shows that international trade affects the demand for skill through an export-based channel. Our working …

oceanic trade. Moreover, Atlantic ports grew much faster than other West European cities, including Mediterranean ports …. Atlantic trade and colonialism affected Europe both directly and indirectly by inducing institutional changes. In particular …, the growth of New World, African and Asian trade after 1500 strengthened new segments of the commercial bourgeoisie and …

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 …