. In particular, we discuss the joint impact of trade openness and political uncertainty. Our theory predicts that the … effect of trade integreation on the environment is conditional on the degree of political uncertainty. Trade integration …

-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained chapters which deal with the following topics in empirical international trade and … gravity models for developed countries to include unemployment (chapter 2) and for Latin American and Caribbean developing …, trade, and informal employment as illustrated by the maquiladora industry in Mexico (chapter 4), the interaction between …

paper examines their scope with a focus on contingent protection aka tit-for-tat in trade policy. By highlighting various … strategies in a (linear) partial-equilibrium framework, we show that retaliation of non- cooperative behavior by limiting market … average more liberal trade regimes. …

This paper estimates the costs of EU restraints on trade in textiles and clothing. After explaining the methods used …, we examine the impact of an opening up of EU trade in textiles and clothing, inter alia to those economies where the …

This paper documents the within firm reallocation of inputs and outputs as a result of a trade policy shock on the …, enables us to identify firms with imported inputs subject to trade policy. To guide the empirics, we first develop a back … their input use towards unprotected inputs. To identify the output reallocation ensuing trade protection on inputs, we …

The empirical relationship between trade protection and economic growth is surprisingly fragile, as shown in a number … relationship between trade barriers and growth is contingent on measures of comparative advantage. The findings suggest that these …

-country protectionism are also found to be relatively closed to agricultural trade …This paper provides the first comprehensive empirical analysis of agricultural trade using a gravity model. The data … set covers bilateral trade in agricultural goods for 152 countries over the periods 1990-93 and 1999-2002. The estimations …

This paper the presents pattern and determinants of intra-industry trade (IIT) in Australian manufacturing since the … trend in IIT suggests that the short-term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalisation are likely to be lower, and … investigated. Results indicate that intra-industry trade is positively related to product differentiation and scale economies, and …

Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) agreements in order to protect human, animal and plant health as well as environment, wildlife … and human safety. Our paper offers an analysis of the structure and the importance of these measures in agricultural trade … equal distribution of negative and positive impacts of NTBs on agricultural trade …

Sub-Saharan Africa's declining importance in global trade is primarily due to its inability to remain competitive in …) higher. External protection against Africa has not played an important role in this decline, in fact, OECD trade preferences … made market access conditions for Africa more favorable than that for many other exporters. In contrast, sub-Saharan Africa …