trade with foreigners is detrimental for growth. We find that Taxes on international trade seems to drive this result …

We analyze a two country-two good model of international trade in which citizens in each country differ by their … specific factor endowments. The trade policy in each country is set by the politician who has been elected by the citizens in a …

According to the Washington Consensus, developing countries’ growth would benefit from reductions in barriers to trade …. However, the empirical basis for judging trade reforms is weak. Econometrics are mostly ad hoc; results are typically not … employing treatment-and-control analysis. We find that a specific treatment, liberalizing tariffs on imported capital and …

This study examines the impact of fiscal, monetary and trade policies on Nigerian economic growth from 1985 to 2020 … long-run result shows that fiscal policies stimulate economic growth, while on the contrary, trade policies deter Nigerian … impels growth of the economy while money supply deters growth of Nigeria's economy; lastly, the trade policies maintain her …

Integrated Trade Solution (WITS) Database. Using a qualitative analytical approach and the WITS model, the findings of the … exports, which will consequently affect economic growth and trade. Based on this findings, it is recommended that the volume …

The authors study how the effect of trade openness on economic growth depends on complementary reforms that help a … gains after trade liberalization depend on the degree of labor market flexibility. In that model, trade protection may … ameliorate the problem of underemployment (and underproduction) in sectors affected by labor market distortions. Hence, trade …

Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), it derives insights from a large number of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) that embody … substantive provisions on both government procurement and services trade. An important finding is that, from an economic … perspective, general market access commitments with respect to services trade and commitments regarding government procurement of …

switch to marketoriented commercial policies in the late 1970s drove trade-led growth in the giants, the PRC's reforms were … rate, and concluded more comprehensive free trade agreements (FTAs) with Asia's developing economies. India has attempted …, one might expect the gap in trade performance between the PRC and India to narrow over time. However, both giants face an …

general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine crosscountry … of trade. Regression results suggest that import protection makes income distribution worse for countries in labor …

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are increasingly dealing with challenges shaped by the new geopolitical and trade … environments. Besides traditional tariffs, exporting firms need to comply with regulatory non-tariff measures (NTMs) in the form of … technical barriers to trade (TBTs) and sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures. Although trade costs associated with these …