Empirical evidence suggests that belonging to an empire favours trade by lowering transaction costs and establishing … preferential trade agreements. Does the end of an empire invert this effect, and if so, through which channels? This paper uses an … original dataset to explore the impact of independence on former colonies’ bilateral trade over the 1948-2007 period. We show …

The consequences on international trade of country breaks-up have received an increasing attention. This paper … investigates the effect of independence on bilateral trade of former French colonies with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. Thanks to … an original dataset including data on pre-independence bilateral trade we obtain more accurate results. We also show that …

The consequences on international trade of colonial rule have received an increasing attention. This paper investigates … the effect of independence on trade with a focus on former French colonies. Thanks to an original dataset including data … on pre-independence bilateral trade for former French colonies, we obtain more accurate results on the effect of …

, we examine the consequences on international trade and welfare. When risk is idiosyncratic to each manager's project …, international differences in manager's risk-aversion distribution become the determinant of trade pattern. Welfare analysis shows … that the less risk averse country specialized in the risky commodity is always better off with free trade. But the more …

inequalities and trade patterns. We analyze the effect of redistributive policies on the production patterns and welfare. We … distinguish an intensive and an extensive channels through which an increase of demand - driven by redistribution or trade opening … - leads to output growth inside a country and in its partner country. Trade between dierent countries (in terms of income or …

gravity model to assess the trade impact of pushing back the level of compliance with labour standards in distinguishing one … hand the effects on bilateral trade (geographical specialization) and, secondly, the effects on the export and import … openness. We show that, other things being equal, countries that meet the standards of work tend to trade more with no …

gravity model to assess the trade impact of pushing back the level of compliance with labour standards in distinguishing one … hand the effects on bilateral trade (geographical specialization) and, secondly, the effects on the export and import … openness. We show that, other things being equal, countries that meet the standards of work tend to trade more with no …

Vertical intra-industry trade accounts for a large share of trade between countries characterized by similar factor … traded products have similar factor intensities. This paper aims at modelling trade in vertically differentiated goods that …-industry trade can be driven by these differences in technology. …

address potential endogeneity, we exploit an eligibility rule that disqualifies processing trade with supplied materials from …

Is the impact of financial development on international trade heterogeneous – being positive, negative or null – across … these questions this article uses a panel trade database on 21 manufacturing sectors in 80 countries between 2000 and 2009 …. The analysis demonstrates that the effect of financial development on trade is indeed heterogeneous by estimating a …