€“ innovation and trade – are in danger of being compromised by the COVID-19 pandemic, under conditions increasingly reminiscent … concentration and dominance, and the multilateral trade system had been buckling under pressure from a return to mercantilist ideas … industrial revolution (4IR) to a premature end. Hence the post-COVID-19 world may be left with trade as the only engine for …

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 …

costs as sanctions disrupt trade. Yet, case studies uncover heterogeneity in countries' responses, with some cases …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 …

declared by its trading partners in official trade statistics for the period 1994-2021 and discusses it in the context of the … larger. We construct a panel dataset to estimate a gravity model of the gap including market size, extent of trade, level of …

This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology … preceding the Great Recession (1976–2007) in a new model that integrates models of trade-related and distance …-related international technology diffusion. Our model's explanatory power is 38% (62%) greater than that of the main trade-related (distance …

of the British pound vis-a-vis the euro and led to considerable uncertainty about future trade relations between the UK …

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and … higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son …) have increased in response to trade liberalization. Thus, altered expectations about future returns from daughters relative …

We analyse the gender-specific effects of trade liberalization on work participation and hours of work and primary … are a key channel through which trade liberalization affects marriage decisions. Delayed marriage among both sexes is …

Trade liberalization is often met with sharp opposition. Recent examples include the so-called Bolkestein directive … of goods that can be traded. The effect of liberalization on the terms of trade tends to favor the poorer country (the …

Using US local labor markets between 1990 and 2010, we analyze the heterogeneous impact of rising trade exposure on …