irrelevant, there is no need for trade agreements - free trade is the optimal policy for each country. But under even minimal … deviations from that benchmark, trade agreements matter. We focus on environments in which there are market failures, technology … domestic contracts and a key determinant of the feasibility and consequences of agreements. With endogenous technology, trade …

We exploit a natural experiment to study the extent to which popular attitudes toward trade are driven by economic … fundamentals. In 2007, Costa Rica put a free trade agreement (FTA) to a national referendum. With a single question on the ballot …

reduction in exports. Firms affected by the shutdown were unable to make up for the loss of trade financing, especially if they … were financially constrained, and consequently laid off employees and curtailed investment. These negative effects were … suggest that government policies aimed at providing trade financing can boost exports and firm growth even in countries with …

and domestic firms in a low-income host country. The US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement reduced US import tariffs on …

We estimate the impact of trade policy uncertainty (TPU) on CES import price indices, focusing on the implications of …

We show that reducing the probability of a trade war promotes long-term importer-exporter relationships that ensure … trade war. Extending the standard general equilibrium trade model to encompass potential trade wars and relational contracts …

We review theoretical and empirical work on the economic effects of the United States and China trade relations during … economic effects on different outcomes. We then focus on the recent U.S.-China trade war. We discuss methods used to evaluate … its effects, describe its economic effects, and analyze if this increase in trade protectionism reverted the effects of …

neoclassical growth model. Investment rates and total factor productivity start out low and rise over time. These model dynamics …