country which is well endowed with low-skilled labour. We analyse under which conditions sinking trade costs stimulate …-skilled relative to low-skilled labour. For a panel of Austrian industries, we find first that decreasing trade barriers, which can be …

This paper studies how political fragmentation affects government stability. We show that each additional party with … fragmentation in parliaments worldwide may have a substantial impact on stability and political selection. …

value added content of trade by combining two datasets – highly disaggregated trade data from UN Comtrade with … over the period 1995 to 2011. This picture changes when the fragmentation of production is considered. We find that the …

We study the long-run stability of trade networks in a two-sided economy of agents labelled men and women. Each agent … desires relationships with the other type, but having multiple partners is costly. This cost-benefit trade-off results in each … agent having a single-peaked utility over the number of partners - the volume of trade - , the peak being greater for men …

Chinese trade, and the growth of vertically specialized trade due to international production fragmentation. The literature in …In recent years, two important related developments have transformed the nature of world trade: the explosive growth of … together. In this paper, we measure the degree to which Chinese trade has become vertically specialized, using a new measure …

This paper argues that the empirical trade-growth relationship should be modelled using a dynamic panel data approach … than previous results. They confirm the existence of a strong causal effect of trade on growth but fail to find evidence … for trade as an independent factor of divergence. Hence, one cannot blame trade as such for the disappointing performance …

We work with a panel of bilateral trade flows from 1988 to 2002, exploring the influence of infrastructure …, institutional quality, colonial and geographic context, and trade preferences on the pattern of bilateral trade. We are interested … in threshold effects, and so emphasize those cases where bilateral country pairs do not actually trade. We depart from …

international trade. We outline a model exemplifying some of these linkages, describe several methods for investigating two …-way feedbacks between various categories of trade, and apply them to the recent experience of developing countries. After … between FDI and manufacturing trade. More precisely, applying Geweke (1982)'s decomposition method, we find that most of the …

, regulation of trade and investment flows, and gender-sensitive public sector spending. …