, primarily in the area of insurance, but also in the diversification of asset holdings. We suggest in this paper that, with …, and towards a focus on insurance arrangements and the diversification of risks associated with climate change …

In this paper, we empirically assess the causal links between trade and individual income risk and study the role that …-industry changes in imports and exports are causally related to income risk: Imports increase risk and exports decrease risk, and they … and the linkage between trade and risk: While, on average, individuals with higher levels of industry- or occupation …

unions to estimate the effect of currency unions on trade using (then-) conventional gravity models. In this paper, we use a … variety of empirical gravity models to estimate the currency union effect on trade and exports, using recent data which … a smaller trade effect than other currency unions; it has a mildly stimulating effect at best. Third and most …

This paper studies the cross-country patterns of risky innovation and growth through the lens of international trade …. We use a simple theoretical framework of risky quality upgrading by firms under varying levels of financial development … correlated with the country's level of financial development. We then test these two hypotheses using data on disaggregated (HS10 …

"This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and … uses the estimates of this empirical analysis to evaluate the welfare effect of trade reform. The analysis proceeds in … various manufacturing sectors. Second, the estimated income risk parameters and data on trade barriers are used to analyze the …

separate country data files giving monthly trade performance for both the import and export sides throughout the crisis. We use …% by 1933, and placing Germany close to autarchy. In the 1998 Asian crisis trade impacts were much smaller since export …This paper documents and compares the trade performance of the major Asian economies both during and following the 2008 …

This paper discusses both the potential contribution that trade policy initiatives can make towards the achievement of … motivated geographical trade arrangements, including carbon free trade areas. We first suggest that trade policy is likely to be … next several decades will be growth more so than trade and its composition, and in turn, the size of trade seemingly …

Competition between opposing lobbies is an important factor in the endogenous determination of trade policy. This paper … investigates empirically the consequences of lobbying competition between upstream and downstream producers for trade policy. The … theoretical structure underlying the empirical analysis is the well-known Grossman-Helpman model of trade policy determination …