This paper underlines the influence of trade diversification on GDP per capita growth. Using methodologies developed by … confirm that trade diversification has a positive e↵ect on growth. However, this positive e↵ect of diversification tends to …

-driven convergence and no robust difference between imports of intermediate and investment goods. Accordingly, trade helps emerging … economies follow a ‘green growth’ path, and trade-related policies can enhance this path. However, the effects are economically … small and require a long time horizon to become effective. Trade-related policies can become much more effective in selected …

Canada’s trade in commercial services appears inconsistent with what manufacturing-oriented Heckscher-Ohlin theory … predicts. Canada’s services trade is overwhelmingly intra-industry, involving countries whose factor proportions and demand … patterns are similar—findings consistent with the ‘new’ trade theory, and the Linder hypothesis: that there is a uni …

characteristic proxy variables of trade facilitation. In order to avoid the possible heterogeneity caused by sample bias, the two …

extended by adding several important omitted variables related to the trade structure and policy coordination. We find that an … increase in trade intensity, intra-industry trade and financial integration leads to less frequent asymmetric shocks. On the …, although the estimated impact is rather small to counteract the positive effects associated with trade and financial …

effect to these trade gains, namely the gains from better spatial matching in the labor market. We simulate a two …, compared to the one with homogenous labor, in which only gains from trade are feasible. …