We empirically analyse the response of US manufacturing labour market variables to various shocks, notably to trade … factors (a sector-specific measure of trade openness, along with common technology and oil price shocks), specific measures of … manufacturing-wide variables are included for each sector. Generalised impulse responses indicate that increased trade openness …

the single market intensified bilateral trade across euro area countries and contributed to higher business cycle symmetry …. The introduction of the single currency led to an intensification of intra-industry trade which has become the main …

rapid increase in the share of China in world trade. As the world is taking the full measure of this phenomenon, tensions … therefore provides an assessment of China’s “natural” place in the world economy based on a new set of trade integration … indicators. These indicators are used as a benchmark in order to examine whether China’s share in international trade is …

countries. We test how trade costs dampen the effect of real exchange rate movements on bilateral exports, and show that the … results are highly consistent with the existence of an hysteresis effect of real exchange rate movements on trade, as …

This paper assesses the Euro’s influence upon European trade by estimating two different indicators. The first is the … with its trade partners. This study of the Euro’s influence by means of the Border Effect is a novelty in the literature …, it reveals that the Euro’s influence upon trade is not so clear as papers focused only on the Rose Effect claim. This …

-regulatory convergence has also contributed to the spur of cross-border financial transactions. Trade in goods, while highly correlated with …