This paper analyses the effect of international borders and of trade agreements at international borders on subnational … 1950 and 2017. Our results show that international borders decrease regional income per capita, while trade agreements at … international borders increase regional income per capita by about the same magnitude. The positive marginal effect of trade …

This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper offers an … integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral … trade agreements. The paper identifies also several questions for further research. …

In a three-country model of endogenous trade agreements, we study the implications of the Most Favored Nation Clause … (MFN) when countries are free to form discriminatory preferential trade agreements (PTAs). While PTA members discriminate … reduces the potency of a country's optimal tariffs and therefore its incentive for unilaterally opting out of trade …

We study the role of firms in the political economy of trade agreements. Using detailed information from lobbying … reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act, we find that virtually all firms that lobby on free trade agreements (FTAs … in international trade and to operate in comparative advantage sectors. To rationalize these findings, we develop a model …

Free trade can often lead to resource depletion, such as deforestation in the tropics. This paper first presents a … after depletion. Because of the damages, the North benefits from trade liberalization only if the remaining stock is, in any … a contingent trade agreement, whereby the allocation of gains from trade, and thus the location on the Pareto frontier …

Can trade agreements motivate environmental conservation? I first present a model whereby the government in the South … trade agreement (CTA), where default tariffs vary with changes in the production capacity (or forest cover). A calibration …

1697 goods originating in 112 countries, to analyse the impact on Canadian imports of interwar Canadian trade policy …, including the 1932 Ottawa trade agreements. Rather than use a dummy variable approach, we compute the impact of individual … tariffs which varied substantially across goods, trade partners, and time. We develop a novel method of controlling for …

trade agreement to cover privacy protection. However, countries do have a beggar-thy-neighbor motivation to apply ad tech …

structural gravity model. To test the ETWFE, we estimate the effects of regional trade agreements (RTAs). The results suggest … expect the ETWFE methods to have significant implications for the estimates of other policy variables in the trade literature …

Regional trade agreements have proliferated in the past two decades while multilateral trade negotiations have stalled … incentive to contribute to the cost of liberalization by signing trade agreements and offering their own market access. I extend … the equilibrium model of endogenous trade liberalization via trade agreements developed by Saggi and Yildiz (2010) to …