This paper uses a three-factor (capital, low and high-skill labour), two-household (low and high-skill individuals), two-sector trade model to analyse the determinants of voter attitudes towards immigration under direct democracy and identify factors that would be coherent with both the observed...

Using the influence-driven approach to endogenous trade-policy determination, we show how a free-trade agreement (FTA) with rules of origin can work as a device to compensate losers from trade liberalization. The FTA constructed in this paper is characterized by external tariff structures that...

Sous des conditions bien connues, les gains d'arbitrage du commerce peuvent etre obtenus soit par le commerce des biens (en l'absence de mobilite des facteurs), soit par la mobilite internationale des facteurs (en l'absence de commerce de biens. Il en decoule que les residents d'un pays...