This paper explores the quantitative consequences of transatlantic trade liberalization envisioned in a Transatlantic … Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union. Our key innovation is to develop a … new quantitative spatial trade model and to use an associated technique which is extraordinarily parsimonious and tightly …

We use data from the Pew Global Attitudes Survey to analyse how public attitudes towards trade have changed over time … in developed economies, and how these attitudes differ across groups in the population. Attitudes towards trade … larger increases in Chinese import competition. Perhaps surprisingly, given that barriers to trade appear to be on the …

This study examines the effect of NAFTA, an instance of North-South trade liberalization, on returns to skill in Mexico …. Mexico is abundant in low-skill workers relative to the US and Canada, and so, by the Hecksher-Ohlin-Samuelson trade model …, ceteris paribus, since Mexico embarked upon trade liberalization by joining the GATT in 1986, this rise was less pronounced by …

international trade. It accounts for differences in individual productivities and their implications for individual wage incomes and … global general equilibrium links. -- wage rigidities ; international trade ; education ; skill-specific unemployment …

unemployment in this sector rising. -- Trade ; offshoring ; search ; unemployment …

diversification. -- Economic growth and international trade ; Heckscher-Ohlin ; multiple cones of diversification ; marginal product …

This paper examines the role of immigrant networks on trade, particularly through the demand effect. First, we examine … the effect of immigration on trade when the immigrants consume more of the goods that are abundant in their home country … than the natives in a standard Heckscher-Ohlin model and find that the effect of immigration on trade is a priori …

This paper highlights that the immigrants' effect on trade is not identical across all types of immigrants but it … countries over the years 1991-2000, this paper finds that the immigrant trade elasticity for the no occupation group is similar … in magnitude to the immigrant effect on trade estimated in the literature. However, this does not capture the full extent …