This paper focuses on self-selection into trade by exporting and importing firms, and on the presence of differential … heterogeneity and the connection between firm-level performance and international trade. They provide evidence on the remarkable …

Fears of rising wage inequality and job loss loom large in current debates on free trade. Surprisingly, however, there … exists little academic research on how to compensate those who lose from free trade. This policy paper reviews the existing … theoretical literature on trade and compensation, and derives guidelines on how to design compensation schemes in practice. The …

trade liberalization on wage inequality. In the context of a dynamic trade model with costly labour mobility (Lechthaler and … Mileva, 2013), we show that the effect of trade liberalization on wage inequality depends on i) the time horizon considered …, ii) the degree of worker mobility, and iii) the degree of trade liberalization (partial/full). In the short-run, observed …

Directive and forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation; international negotiation of trade disciplines, most recently in … flows are costly and can hurt exports, especially of data-processing and other data-based services; international trade … privacy regulation. The way forward is to design trade rules (as the CPTPP seeks to do) that reflect the bargain central to …

This paper studies the trade effects of Covid-19 using monthly disaggregated trade data for 28 countries and multiple … show that the negative trade effects induced by Covid-19 shocks varied widely across sectors. Sectors more amenable to …

A structural gravity model is used to estimate barriers to services trade across many sectors, countries and time …

analysis of their impact. This paper describes the Services Trade Policy Database (STPD), a joint initiative by the World Bank … OECD database. The STPD offers comparable information on services trade policies for 68 economies in 23 subsectors across …. Second, the database contains information not just on core trade policies but also on other increasingly relevant aspects …

Does "infant industry" preferential access durably boost export performance? This paper exploits significant trade … causal impact of these changes, we use a triple-differences regression and 26 years of newly constructed trade and tariff …