Natural resources account for 20% of world trade, and dominate the exports of many countries. Policy is used to … (equivalent to trade taxes if no domestic production is possible). We review the literature, and argue that the policy equilibrium …

We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade … free trade areas more likely to support full integration than states without free trade? Second, is trade liberalization … more likely to be supported by a simultaneous referendum on trade and migration than in one on trade alone? The key to our …

, strong intraregional trade, and the prospect of accession to the EU. It concludes that the EU's Member States must give …

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 … tariff cuts negotiated under the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) affected …

theory characterizes how innovation and learning determine technology gaps, trade and global income inequality. Countries … innovation-dependence by industry from R&D and bilateral trade data. Calibrating the model implies technology gaps, due to cross …

Technological progress and trade potentially affect wages and employment. Technological progress can make jobs obsolete … and trade can increase unemployment in import competing sectors. Empirical evidence suggests that both causes are … contribution of technological progress and trade in recent labour market developments and allows us to identify the winners and …

Trade and growth theories predict a mutual causation of innovation and exports. We test empirically whether innovation …

trade, slavery and early colonialism were linked to human capital formation, but this connection appears to have been … heterogeneous. The contact with the Atlantic slave trade increased regional divergence, as the coast of Senegambia developed more … populations to the economic incentives provided by foreign demand for agricultural products. The peanut trade since the mid-19th …