consolidating trade competitiveness over time, as skill accumulation becomes more widespread across countries and loses significance … technology. This research is timely with deadlocked multilateral trade negotiations and looming trade wars. It attempts to … contribute to an evidence-based guide to trade policy. …

Standard trade theory suggests that the profile of exporting firms is characterized by large firms which dominate …, creating and shaping global production networks. In recent decades, trade flows have become increasingly dominated by trade …-in-tasks within global production networks. Given the importance of pro-competitive effects in establishing the gains from trade …

This article investigates empirically the effect of aid for trade policies and regulations on the volatility of tariffs … for trade policies and regulations influences negatively and significantly tariff policy volatility in recipient countries … the reducing effect of aid for trade policies and regulations on tariff policy volatility. These results, therefore …

This study investigates how trade openness affects economic growth in developing countries, with a focus on sub … long-run equilibrium relations. The empirical evidence indicates that a trade threshold exists below which greater trade … openness has beneficial effects on economic growth and above which the trade effect on growth declines. The evidence also …

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Africa has surged in recent years. At the same time, international trade has …

This paper investigates the impact of multilateral trade liberalization on resource revenue, using an unbalanced panel … two-step system Generalized Methods of Moments (GMM) estimator, the empirical analysis suggests that multilateral trade … over the full sample hides a positive effect of multilateral trade liberalization on resource revenue in poorest countries …