-rents. Each government must trade off the direct benefit of stronger bargaining rights against both the effect of chasing …

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 …

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 …

reduction in exports. Firms affected by the shutdown were unable to make up for the loss of trade financing, especially if they … suggest that government policies aimed at providing trade financing can boost exports and firm growth even in countries with …

This paper studies the evolution of China's production and trade patterns during its integration into the global … growth acted as a counterforce. Consistent with the data, our model demonstrates that China's trade openness peaked around …

We develop a dynamic spatial growth model to explore the role of trade and internal migration in the process of spatial … knowledge. Global ideas diffuse more to locations that are relatively more exposed to international trade. Local ideas are … diffused across space when workers move to another location. We embed the diffusion of ideas through trade and migration into a …