-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained chapters which deal with the following topics in empirical international trade and …, trade, and informal employment as illustrated by the maquiladora industry in Mexico (chapter 4), the interaction between … migration and trade and their effects on unemployment (chapter 5), and the dynamics of democracy and income chapter 6). …

We carry out an indirect inference test of two versions of a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of world trade …. One of these, the ‘classical’ model,is well-known as the Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model of world trade, in which … countries trade homogeneous products in world markets and produce according to their comparative advantage as determined by …

order to model the trade between Turkey and the EU, we employ a time series analysis, namely cointegration method with error …

consumers via an extended set of consumption possibilities, as pointed out in the "New Trade Theory". In this paper, we apply … imported variety for the 27 countries of the European Union using highly disaggregated trade data at the HTS-8 level from … variety for consumers stem from intra-European Union trade. …

consumers via an extended set of consumption possibilities, as pointed out in the "New Trade Theory". In this paper, we apply … imported variety for the 27 countries of the European Union using highly disaggregated trade data at the HTS-8 level from … variety for consumers stem from intra-European Union trade. …

Helpman, Melitz and Rubinstein (2008) derive gravity equations to estimate effects of trade barriers on the intensive … and extensive margins of trade. They exploit the frequency of zeros in aggregate bilateral trade data to identify effects … extensive margin when data contain only positive trade flows. We also control for the pervasive presence of heteroscedasticity …

agriculture is driven by comparative advantage and non-homothetic preferences. Countries are integrated through trade but trade is … better fit to cross-sectional data on manufacturing shares than frameworks which ignore the role of trade costs or non … lowering of trade barriers. -- industrialization ; economic geography ; international trade …

support the role of international trade in Malawi’s economic development and hence policies that seek to facilitate Malawi …’s trade within and outside the SADC regional would be worthwhile to pursue. …