How does trade liberalization affect wages? This is the first paper to consider in theory and data how the impact of …

international statistics shows that service trade between CIS countries and OECD countries is strongly underestimated and could grow … 2.5–3 times larger due to liberalization. Modeling of the international service trade shows that services imports into … Russia are strongly limited by existing trade barriers. For Russia, according to the estimates, the most liberalized service …

effect of trade liberalization on export prices and its relation with product differentiation. Next, the paper extends Melitz …'s (2003) model of trade with heterogeneous firms by introducing endogenous quality choice. The model predicts that a reduction …

This chapter studies interlinkages and interaction between the reciprocal trade liberalization through the WTO and … preferential trade agreements from the perspective of the LDCs. An econometric exercise using an extended version of ARTNeT gravity …’ trade. …

significant gains for liberalization of trade through the World Trade Organization. It is not clear that the reported gains are at … multilateral trade liberalization are very small even in a formal New Keynesian model incorporating economies with significant …

Asia and the Pacific. The findings reveal that despite declared pledges of the developed countries towards free trade, and …

This chapter reiterates some truisms about the linkages between trade, trade liberalization and development. It also … provides a statistical overview of the Asia-Pacific LDCs’ performance in trade and investment since 2000. …

We present an international trade model with multiproduct firms. Firms are heterogeneously endowed with two types of … capabilities that jointly determine the trade-off within firms between managing a large portfolio of products and producing at low …, including why larger firms are more productive and more diversified, and yet more diversified firms trade at a discount …

union wage setting. Being interested in the consequences of openness, we show that, in the short-run, trade increases …