Starting with Krugman (1980), much literature has analyzed how trade liberalization affects the economy based on the … notion that trade is motivated by consumer's love of variety. In this paper, I augment these preferences by the determinants … heterogeneous tastes for attributes. Allowing for international trade, the model predicts a within-industry home market effect, i …

product attribute dimension that significantly drive net trade patterns and reduce the volume of trade. Further it is shown … trade volume to liberalization as it took time for each country's industry structure to adapt to the demand structure of the … common market. To rationalize such trade patterns, a structural model of demand featuring consumers with homothetic …

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. …

negatively by trade, while the Gini statistic is fueled by the falling labour share and increasing financial payments. Using …