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 …

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 …

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 …