The expansion of regionalism has spawned an extensive theoretical literature analysing the effects of Free Trade … Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU … effects on trade flows by treating the agreement variable as endogenous. Our theoretical framework is the gravity model, and …

This paper investigates the impact of agricultural trade liberalization on economic activity and political violence in … emerging countries. We use data on all Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) signed between 25 low- and middle-income countries … and their high-income trade partners between 1995 and 2013. We exploit the implied reduction in agricultural tariffs over …

We develop a new general equilibrium model of trade with heterogeneous firms, variable demand elasticities and … endogenously determined wages. Trade integration favors wage convergence, intensifies competition, and forces the least efficient …, our model is well suited to study the impacts of trade integration on aggregate productivity and factor prices. Using …

The main goal of regionalization is the creation of free trade areas and the guarantee for countries to accede to a … widened market. Many studies dealing with the effects of regional free trade agreements on trade flows already exist in the … of regionalization. However, the effects of agreements on trade were sometimes contradictory in those studies. These …

gravity framework on annual bilateral FDI data for almost every country in the world, over 1985-2018, we find EU membership …

the pros and cons of deep trade integration as a remedy, involving well-enforced labor standards both upstream and … 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 …

in the intensity of bilateral trade in cultural goods. Our empirical framework includes a comprehensive set of high …

In this paper we investigate whether the effects of terrorism in one country spillover to affect trade in neighboring … nation's contiguous neighbors significantly reduce bilateral trade. Each additional terrorist attack in a neighboring country … reduces bilateral trade by nearly 0.013% on average, which translates into a reduction of about $6.4 million USD in total …

This paper examines the interactive effect of distance and trade on international conflict and cooperation. The effect … of geographic distance depends on trade, while the effect of trade varies with geographic distance. Trade reduces … more distant. Geographic proximity increases conflict and cooperation more among non-trading dyads. -- conflict ; trade …

This paper explores the relationship between openness to trade, immigration, and income per person across countries. To … predictors of openness to immigration and to trade for each country by using information on bilateral geographical and cultural … climate, disease environment, natural resources, and colonial origins. Most importantly, we also account for the roles of …