What causes U.S. trade with Mexico and Canada to continue growing faster, for up to a decade, relative to countries … with which the U.S. does not have a free trade agreement? Baier and Bergstrand (2007) suggest that tariff phase-out and … delayed pass-through of tariffs into import prices could cause such prolonged differential import growth. We examine how …

This paper explores official trade data to identify patterns of smuggling in international trade. Our main measure of … interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the … with the level of corruption in both partner countries. This finding supports the hypothesis that trade gaps partly …

In this paper we construct a Ricardian model of trade in vertically-differentiated products between a developing … country and the (developed) rest of the world. Despite labour being the only factor of production in this model, tariffs (in …-voter's preferred reliance on tariffs versus income taxes in order to effect the desired redistribution. Using data from 44 countries we …

advocacy of market liberalisation and the protection of nationals' interests. Likewise, we review the still very scarce … on the analysis of privatisation and liberalisation in the utilities sectors. …

the public monopsony. Political support for liberalisation may therefore be limited. …

of worker. Our analysis reveals that the effects of a liberalization on human capital ac-cumulation, income and … inequality are gradual and cumulative. In case of a complete liberalization, the world average level of GDP per worker increases … decreases and the liberalization path has stochastic dominance over the Baseline-As-Usual. These results are very robust to our …

severely regulated. We identify the latter two groups as falling in “liberalization traps”. Institutional quality interacts …

and economic liberalization affect governments' respect for human rights using a panel of 106 countries over the 1981 …

This paper explores the dynamic effects of trade liberalization on tax revenue using a worldwide panel dataset. Results … point to statistically significant negative effect of liberalization on (non- resource) tax revenues in the short term and … no significant effect in the medium term. Liberalization also alter the tax structure tilting revenues toward indirect …