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 …

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

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. …

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

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 …

and a terms of trade externality. It is larger the higher the dispersion of firm-level productivities, and the bigger the … country's relative size or relative average productivity. Furthermore, in the two-country Nash equilibrium, tariffs turn out … to be strategic substitutes. Small or poor economies set lower Nash tariffs than large or rich ones. Lower transportation …

adjustment dynamics that follow the use of tariffs. We show that countries that limit trade in capital goods can experience … differ in basic structural parameters and may impose tariffs on imports of capital goods. Numerical experiments illustrate … region that applies tariffs. Substantial differences in the levels of innovation, consumption, output, and utility can appear …