challenge the view that greater openness to trade automatically leads to improved firm entry institutions. My model enables … calculating business entry impediments whereas lobbying game produces structural estimates of the counterfactual levels of trade … extensive margin and asymmetries in technology and trade costs. Importantly, the model demonstrates that startling differences …

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 …

, policy should be made towards controlling this negative effect resulting from macroeconomic variables as East Africa bids for …

In the struggle between the forces of free trade and the restrictive influence of insularism the latter recently seems …

) has been studied with an intra-industry trade Applied General Equilibrium (AGE) model with intersectoral capital mobility …

in goods trade in the 90ies. An increase in the market concentration exhibits a positive impact on bilateral exports … hypotheses. As a result, goods trade between the member countries was polarised in terms of a relative disintegration. …

-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different implications of the growing importance of trade in intermediate inputs. The first … chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … and estimates the importance of international trade in intermediate inputs and internationally mobile capital for the …

PECS reverses the negative impact of strict ROOs on intermediate trade which turns positive as a consequence of introducing …

PECS reverses the negative impact of strict ROOs on intermediate trade which turns positive as a consequence of introducing …