The expansion of regionalism has spawned an extensive theoretical literature analysing the effects of Free Trade … Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU … effects on trade flows by treating the agreement variable as endogenous. Our theoretical framework is the gravity model, and …

We develop a new general equilibrium model of trade with heterogeneous firms, variable demand elasticities and … endogenously determined wages. Trade integration favors wage convergence, intensifies competition, and forces the least efficient …, our model is well suited to study the impacts of trade integration on aggregate productivity and factor prices. Using …

This paper investigates the impact of agricultural trade liberalization on economic activity and political violence in … emerging countries. We use data on all Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) signed between 25 low- and middle-income countries … and their high-income trade partners between 1995 and 2013. We exploit the implied reduction in agricultural tariffs over …

In this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade flows, using Italian panel data covering very …

This paper provides evidence that foreign workers reduce firms' trade costs and thus increase the probability that … firms export. This informs both the literature on trade costs and the microeconomic literature on firms' export behaviour … regions, consistent with a gravity model in which trade flows from country i to j are a function of migrants from j in i …

The impact of imports from low-wage countries on domestic labor market outcomes has been a hotly debated issue for … the labor market into account. We find that greater exposure to Chinese imports corresponds to a negative firm …