strong though not definitive evidence of an ideological realignment in trade-exposed local labor markets that commences prior … to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …, we find that trade exposed electoral districts simultaneously exhibit growing ideological polarization in some domains …

This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the impact of trade on income. First, we use heterogeneous … trade on income for 81 developed and developing countries, both for the sample as a whole and for each individual country …. Second, we use a general-to-specific variable selection approach to identify important determinants of the effect of trade on …

Since the expansion of world trade in the 1980s, measures of inequality have risen not only in developed countries, but … also throughout the developing world. This stylized fact is contrary to the predictions of classical trade theory that in … empirically tests the effects of trade on wage inequality in a differentiated panel framework where countries are classified …

What was the impact of railroads in the output of the United States during the 19th century and how can a New Trade … trade and U.S. county output data from the 19th century, to estimate county gains from trade using a fixed-point algorithm …

This paper examines the relationship between the shadow economy and trade openness in Uganda, using autoregressive … distributed lag bounds testing approach. We find that the shadow economy and trade openness have a long- and short … exposure to foreign trade significantly reduces the size of the shadow economy. This could imply that as countries become more …

Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a common language trade … that this trade-promoting effect of language is likely to reflect cultural ties, rather than lower costs of communication … local dialect between regions have a sizable and significant positive impact on intra-national trade. We interpret this …

estimation of trade elasticities. The elasticities we compute depend directly on the specialization of trade across sectors … elasticities for North Macedonia - i.e. trade elasticities relevant to policy - and ultimately to calibration choices. …

trade elasticities. The elasticities we compute depend directly on the specialization of trade across sectors, which is … North Macedonia - i.e. trade elasticities relevant to policy - and ultimately to calibration choices. The income and price …

Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to … quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel … between 1.6 and 2.4 depending upon weighting. This provides an important contribution to the trade literature of Ricardian …