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 …

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 …

of exporters) and intensive (volume of exports) margins of international trade. The article's main contribution is its …. It also presents new information on firm behavior under financial constraints. The paper develops a trade model with … firms' export volumes once they become exporters. An empirical analysis is developed on the basis of an international trade …

This paper is dedicated to a theoretical and empirical survey of the relationship between trade, growth, poverty and … therefore estimated the direct impact of trade on income or income growth. But this raises the problem of endogeneity of trade … to income, knowing that openness defined according to trade cannot be easily related to trade policies. As it is shown in …

This paper studies interactions between aid and three other major North-South flows : international trade, FDI and …

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 …

The fact that crossing a political border dramatically reduces trade flows has been widely documented in the literature … the measured growth in world trade. We first show that trade statistics should be considered carefully when assessing … globalization over time, since the definition of trade partners varies over time. We document a sizeable resulting accounting …