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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

We investigate the effect of economic sanctions on trade flows in countries sharing a border with sanctioned states …. According to trade models, sanctions are expected to reduce trade flows as they disrupt established trading routes and economic … relationships with suppliers and customers. However, there may also be instances where countries circumvent trade restrictions by …

China's merchandise trade surplus has reached an all-time high and is likely to rise further. A key driver appears to … trading partners with high trade deficits with China. As this constellation could be the source of growing trade conflicts …, this article analyses China's growing trade surplus in several dimensions with a focus on Chinas trade relation to the EU. …

them not least on the allegedly protectionist and descriminating EEC trade policy, Dr. Langhammer shows that internal …