explores the links between countries' business conditions and international trade embedment and the default risk at the country … derive sharp predictions concerning how key factors which shape a country's business and trade environment impact on the …

We develop a general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms, where countries can invest into … advantage in trade. Countries tend to over-invest due to this strategic motive. There are thus welfare gains from coordinating …

inherently multi-country nature of both migration and other forms of integration, such as international trade and remittance …

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 …

There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household … economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant …

The literature on international trade and firm performance grows exponentially. This paper attempts to summarize what … published papers using data for firms from manufacturing or services industries to study the links between international trade …

Within the migration-trade nexus literature, this paper proposes a more carefully defined measure of migration business … networks, and quantifies its impact on bilateral trade. Using cross-sectional data and controlling for the overall bilateral … on trade, and especially on exports. Those immigrants should be the ones directly involved in the diffusion and …