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

We review recent research linking international trade to the environment, with a focus on new results and methods. The …-style approach to trade and the environment, its full potential has not yet been exploited. We discuss existing empirical and …

We build and estimate a structural dynamic general equilibrium model of growth and trade. Trade affects growth through …, growth affects trade, directly through changes in country size and indirectly through altering the incidence of trade costs …. Theory translates into an intuitive econometric system that identifies the causal impact of trade on income and growth, and …

The paper develops a unified general equilibrium model including savings with overlapping generations, investment and …

We develop a dynamic multi-country trade model with foreign direct investment (FDI) in the form of non-rival technology … capital. The model nests structural gravity subsystems for FDI and trade, with accumulation/decumulation of phyisical and … to 9% of world's welfare and to 11% of world's trade, unevenly distributed among winners and losers. Net exports of FDI …

Natural-resource taxation and investment exhibit cycles in a vast number of countries, driving political turmoil and … investments, which in turn prompts it to increase taxes next period. This induces low investment thus low future taxes, and so on …

experienced higher levels of agricultural productivity in 1841 and 1852 as well as more investment in irrigation and more …