More than half of the World Trade Organization (WTO)-notified services trade agreements (STAs) in effect since 2008 …) determinants of preferential trade agreements and using the World Bank's database on the restrictiveness of domestic services … results suggest that countries within Asia that are more remote from the rest of the world and that have similar economic …

relationship between mass media and political actions is through the use of the World Bank's Doing Business data, specifically, by …

I examine how globalization affects wages and welfare in a general equilibrium model of international trade with partly … oligopolistic markets. Globalization is modeled as reducing trade costs or opening up shielded sectors to trade. There is a national … contributions to the latter's decisions. Both a shift from national to international regulation and a decrease in trade costs …

Globalization transforms not just the economics of production and exchange in the world, but also the political economy … affected by globalization, in particular colonial expansions of wine producing empires. We study several historic cases and …