-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained chapters which deal with the following topics in empirical international trade and … gravity models for developed countries to include unemployment (chapter 2) and for Latin American and Caribbean developing …, trade, and informal employment as illustrated by the maquiladora industry in Mexico (chapter 4), the interaction between …

on the specific market of textile products, which was among the most affected by the protectionism measures. The … existing studies, which are mainly devoted to the impact of reduced trade flows on the key macroeconomic indicators, we focus … the ongoing trade war has not only adversely affected the macroeconomic fundamentals of the US economy, but it is also …

most determinant variables for defining Trade in Value Added (TiVA) clusters. The level of economic development remains a …

During the last decades, the United States has applied increasingly high trade protection against China. We combine … detailed information on US antidumping (AD) duties — the most widely used trade barrier — with US input-output data to study … the effects of trade protection along supply chains. To deal with endogeneity concerns, we propose a new instrument for AD …

We consider the effects of protectionist trade policies on international and domestic market integration, using …. The U.S. domestic market experienced a higher speed of price adjustment across domestic regions prior to the free trade … evidence from the long-standing softwood lumber trade dispute between Canada and the United States. The benefits of trade …

The Brazil-Taxation dispute concerns the complaints taken to the World Trade Organisation by the European Union and … can be exempted from complying with National Treatment rules under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and the …

This paper outlines the technical foundations and the market structure for international trade in information … technology services; it analyzes the resulting trade barriers. The functioning of the Internet (network structure, allocation of … and legal barriers to international trade in information technology services are evaluated. This analysis lays the …

This paper outlines the technical foundations and the market structure for international trade in telecommunication … services; it analyzes the resulting trade barriers. The basic structure of international telecommunications depends on the … national market structure and the transmission technique (cable versus mobile). This results in different incentives and …

clothing sector accounts for the largest share in trade between India and Pakistan chiefly because of the similarities in … culture and the importance of the sector in their economies. However, the level of bilateral trade in textile and clothing at … USD 722 million (2013) is dismal as compared to the trade potential of USD 2.10 billion. To make a case for increasing …