China's rapid rise in the global economy following its 2001 World Trade Organization (WTO) entry has raised questions … benefits. We find that the China trade shock reduced the U.S. manufacturing price index by 7.6 percent between 2000 and 2006 … first, which has received much attention in the literature, is the United States granting permanent normal trade relations …

We exploit a panel dataset of Hungarian firms merged with product-level trade data for the period 1992-2003 to …-selection effects of the most productive firms induced by the existence of heterogeneous sunk costs of trade, for both importers and … exporters. We relate these sunk costs of trade to the relationship-specific nature of the trade activities, entailing a certain …

one or more aspects of international trade and factor movements, including trade in goods, trade in value added …, international movement of labor and capital, and trade in risk. All chapters aim to contribute to our understanding of the economic … of the pattern of trade, factor flows, and production, as well as the role of barriers to the international exchange of …

determining the effect of trade liberalisation on resource reallocation, using Belgian manufacturing firm- and firm … degrees of comparative advantage. We then examine the impact of opening up trade with low-wage countries on both inter- and … industries. Our results indicate that, within more closely integrated sectors, trade liberalisation with low-wage countries leads …

Within a standard gravity framework I explore the impact of country size and trade liberalisation on extensive and … trade literature, i.e., vertical integration versus trade in technology goods. First, there is evidence in favour of a … unilateral complement to Yi's (2003) claim that vertical integration magnifies the trade effect of multilateral trade …

Despite the fact that many modern preferential trade agreements include commitments to foreign investors in imperfectly …

Trade policy has well documented effects on trade volumes. Reaching beyond volumes, I explore the impact of European … emerging economies' recent institutional trade liberalisation on extensive (i.e., the set of imported goods) versus intensive … support new models of heterogeneous firms and trade, which predict that extensive import margin effects of a country …

-level performance, via two channels simultaneously: trade and FDI. We develop a simple theoretical model showing that trade integration …

impact on Armenia of a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with the EU, as well as further regional or … multilateral trade policy commitments. They find that a DCFTA with the EU will likely result in substantial gains to Armenia, but … are: (i) trade facilitation and reduction in border costs; (ii) services liberalization; and (iii) standards harmonization …