We introduce a simple oligopolistic trade model with international transportation costs, and analyze the profitability … and the social desirability of national vs. international mergers in relation to three different issues, (i) the level of …

What are the main causes of international terrorism? The lessons from the surge of academic research that followed 9 … (the escalation effect) stressing domestic political instability as the main reason for international terrorism …

In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries and between high- and low …-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade affects the labour market. In this spirit, this … paper aims to investigate the impact of international trade on wage dispersion in a small open economy. It is one of the few …

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 …

In this paper, we provide an overview of the relationship between international migration and international trade as … channels, on internal income distribution, international income convergence and on whether migration and trade are substitutes …