This paper explores the role of country asymmetries for trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms. Our … analysis delivers a number of novel results. First, trade policies, infrastructure policies and industrial policies which …, symmetric trade liberalization is immiserizing for a trading partner whose business conditions are inferior. Third, there are …

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and … higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son …) have increased in response to trade liberalization. Thus, altered expectations about future returns from daughters relative …

Using US local labor markets between 1990 and 2010, we analyze the heterogeneous impact of rising trade exposure on …

channels through which tariff reductions differentially affect males and females, we find that trade-induced competitive …

We analyse the gender-specific effects of trade liberalization on work participation and hours of work and primary … are a key channel through which trade liberalization affects marriage decisions. Delayed marriage among both sexes is …

global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and … pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric ways with respect to (i) the nature of unilaterally optimal trade … the pros and cons of deep trade integration as a remedy, involving well-enforced labor standards both upstream and …

Morocco's trade liberalization policies coincided with macroeconomic growth over the past two decades. The relationship … between trade liberalization and individual-level labor-market outcomes, however, are not well understood. By combining three … complementary approaches and modeling techniques, this paper estimates: (i) the relationship between trade agreements and trade …

Even if free trade creates net welfare gains for a country as a whole, the associated distributional implications can … undermine the political viability of free trade. We show that trade-related redistribution increases the political viability of … free trade in the US. We do so by assessing the causal effect of expected redistribution associated with the US Trade …

This paper analyses the trade balance effects of Europe agreements (EA) between the EU-15 and four new EU members from …. Our estimation results indicate a positive and significant impact of EA on trade flows. However, there is an asymmetric … impact of the agreement variable on the trade balance, exports and imports being affected in different ways, which results in …