regional trade agreements involving the US. We exploit the variation in the frequency with which the US has granted immediate … duty free access (IDA) to its Free Trade Area partners across tariff lines. A key finding is that the US has granted IDA … Uruguay Round (multilateral) ‘concessions’ have emulated subsequent (preferential) trade liberalisation. We conclude from this …

inducing the most productive formal firms to engage in trade. The model also predicts market share reallocations towards the …

This paper examines the role of international trade, and specifically imports from low-wage countries, in determining …-proportions-inspired work on offshoring and heterogeneous firms in trade, we build industry-level measures of import competition. Combining … Manufactures, and transaction-level trade data, we find that rising import competition from China and other developing economies …

This paper examines how the geography of UK international trade has changed since the UK¿s accession to the European …

This paper combines establishment level production data with international trade data by port to examine the impact of … geography models of how external trade affects the spatial distribution of employment. Our results suggest that accession … changed the country-composition of UK trade and via the port-composition induced an exogenous shock to the economic …

This paper examines how the geography of UK international trade has changed since the United Kingdom’s accession to the … UK trade. …