We estimate the variety gains of trade in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania following the fall of the iron curtain more … Lugovskyy (2010) and Soderbery (2015) to domestic and international trade data for the period 1988-1997. Although, there was a …

This paper revisits the relationship between international trade and economic growth. We measure trade openness indices … in explaining growth gains from trade. Using sectoral level data from WORLD KLEMS Database on industrial productivity and … output and global input output tables to construct the measures of trade openness, our empirical analysis covering 21 …

This paper revisits the relationship between international trade and economic growth. We measure trade openness indices … in explaining growth gains from trade. Using sectoral level data from WORLD KLEMS Database on industrial productivity and … output and global input output tables to construct the measures of trade openness, our empirical analysis covering 21 …

We examine how trade openness influences income inequality within countries. The sample includes 139 countries over the … period 1970-2014. We employ predicted openness as instrument to deal with the endogeneity of trade openness. The effect of … trade openness on income inequality differs across countries. Trade openness tends to disproportionately benefit the …

We examine how trade openness influences income inequality within countries. The sample includes 139 countries over the … period 1970-2014. We employ predicted openness as instrument to deal with the endogeneity of trade openness. The effect of … trade openness on income inequality differs across countries. Trade openness tends to disproportionately benefit the …