There is an ongoing debate in the literature about the quality content of Chinese exports and to what extent China … values reflect quality the prevailing view of the literature is that China exports low quality varieties of the same products …. We derive the quality of Chinese exports to the European Union by estimating disaggregated demand functions from a …

This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing … intra and inter-industry trade as well as between trade from western and eastern Europe and we try to assess the relative … importance of foreign wages versus domestic productivity developments in an open environment. We find that trade is not an …

In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries and between high- and low …-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade affects the labour market. In this spirit, this … paper aims to investigate the impact of international trade on wage dispersion in a small open economy. It is one of the few …

This paper discusses the channels between openness and productivity and trade hampering factors. The stylized facts … markets and regulations in other countries are important trade barriers for European firms. From these outcomes it could be … derived that EU trade policies should be directed to deep integration with other countries, preferably by implementing …

-regulatory convergence has also contributed to the spur of cross-border financial transactions. Trade in goods, while highly correlated with …

comovement, but this may partly reflect the effects of trade relations. Moreover, more intensive FDI links are also associated … with a greater vulnerability to lagged output spillovers from abroad, whereas trade links are not. Policy implications of …