investigates the effect of independence on bilateral trade of former French colonies with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. Thanks to … former French colonies in Sub-Saharan Africa exhibit distinctive post-colonial trade patterns as compared to other former …The consequences on international trade of country breaks-up have received an increasing attention. This paper …

Does leaving a currency union reduce international trade? This paper reexamines time series estimates of currency … unions on trade from a historical perspective using a dynamic gravity equation and by conducting in-depth case studies of … of currency unions on trade close to one percent. …

the effect of independence on trade with a focus on former French colonies. Thanks to an original dataset including data … on pre-independence bilateral trade for former French colonies, we obtain more accurate results on the effect of … metropole and that this effect is mainly driven by former French colonies. We also show that, after independence, trade (imports …

differential impact of British versus French colonial legacies on the current trade of African ex-colonies. We initially find that … former British colonies trade more, on average, than do their French counterparts. This difference might be the result of the … respect to trade. This finding suggests that the apparent better performance of British ex-colonies might be instead explained …

regional trading arrangements (RIAS) on trade policy towards non-members in a three-good, three-country model. …

This report examines the different channels through which trade openness (and reforms to achieve it) can affect a … country’s food security. The overall conclusion is that trade openness has a positive net impact on food security, although … of trade protection. The challenge for policymakers is to design flanking policies which enable countries to reap …

Countries embarking on trade negotiations are not only seeking increased market access, but also, reduced market … trade agreements (RTAs) concluded by OECD and large emerging economies over the last decade. While there is a lively … discussion on strengthening transparency in the World Trade Organization (WTO), scant attention has been paid to the evolution of …

What influences the adoption of transparency obligations in trade agreements, and what are its effects? This paper uses … a new dataset on transparency provisions in over a hundred regional trade agreements (RTAs) to provide empirical … evidence of the political economy determinants of international transparency commitments, as well as the trade impact of …

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 …

In the paper the endogenous trade model follows the Grosman and Helpman tradition. The structure of the economy is … characterised by a specific factor trade model and consumers' preferences are quasilinears. …