We introduce a simple oligopolistic trade model with international transportation costs, and analyze the profitability … trade freeness, (ii) the possibility of rent appropriation on world markets, and (iii) direct quot;synergyquot; effects of …

This paper explores the quantitative consequences of transatlantic trade liberalization envisioned in a Transatlantic … Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union. Our key innovation is to develop a … new quantitative spatial trade model and to use an associated technique which is extraordinarily parsimonious and tightly …

How does international trade affect the popularity of governments and leaders? The recent backlash against … globalization renders this question extremely topical. Yet, most previous work has looked for political effects of aggregate trade … flows without decomposing into particular types of products. We provide the first large-scale, global evidence that trade …

This paper presents new evidence on international trade and worker outcomes. It examines a big world event that … studies the impact of trade on wages and worker training. Wages and training fell for workers employed in sectors where the …

We provide evidence for the causal pro-trade effect of migrants and in doing so establish an important link between … during which time the US imposed a complete trade embargo on Vietnam. Following the lifting of trade restrictions in 1994, US …

The international economic debate on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has focused mainly on … trade induced real income gains while the FDI related and innovation induced benefits have been largely neglected, although … trade related real income gains in the context of TTIP – also contributes to new knowledge and a fortiori to higher GDP …

We analyze the impact of trade-induced income shocks on the size of local government, and the provision of public …

emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower …-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … the unequal impacts of trade can manifest along different margins. Recent evidence from countries across Europe and the US …