countries that contain developing country labor content. We demonstrate that this pattern of offshoring can harbor a pro-trade … implications on countries’ (i) incentive to violate trade agreements, and (ii) ability to leverage the dispute settlement … tariffs to punish trade agreement violators …

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 …

The sharp decline in trade volume and value during the current economic crisis has contributed to lower transportation … costs and reduced waiting times at border crossings, reducing the urgency of progress on trade facilitation. Meanwhile …, greater trade is expected to play a key role in recovery, and in sustaining growth afterwards. The crisis offers an excellent …

The sharp decline in trade volume and value during the current economic crisis has contributed to lower transportation … costs and reduced waiting times at border crossings, reducing the urgency of progress on trade facilitation. Meanwhile …, greater trade is expected to play a key role in recovery, and in sustaining growth afterwards. The crisis offers an excellent …

-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained chapters which deal with the following topics in empirical international trade and … countries to additionally include informal employment (chapter 3) as well as the relation between foreign direct investment …, trade, and informal employment as illustrated by the maquiladora industry in Mexico (chapter 4), the interaction between …

intermediate services against market entry of new suppliers. By scanning the empirical literature on effective rates of protection … important intermediate services like banking and telecom and thus these industries can be instrumental to help downstream … services will further rise due to various EU-policy rooted factors. As a result, protection rates of services in individual EU …

growth, but subject to numerous qualifications. For example, RER effects on exports differ by type of goods exported, while …

In this paper we build a model of trade in vertically differentiated products and find that income inequality can …

motivations: the weighted appreciation of an emerging-market currency against its top five trade competitors. This proxy Granger … mercantilist and macroprudential motivations. Policymakers respond to trade competitiveness concerns by using both instruments …

In this paper we build a model of trade in vertically differentiated products and find that income inequality can …