We seek to contribute to the debate over globalization and the environment by asking: What is the effect of trade on a … country's environment, for a given level of GDP? We take specific account of the endogeneity of trade, using exogenous … geographic determinants of trade as instrumental variables. We find that trade tends to reduce three measures of air pollution …

international capital movements, newfirm formation, and international trade. This paper focuses on a statistically rigorous analysis … ofinternational trade studies, using a technique that is known as meta-analysis. The paper presentsa statistically supported … regulation and competitiveness are when itcomes to studies on international trade flows. The synthesis of the literature is …

international capital movements, newfirm formation, and international trade. This paper focuses on a statistically rigorous analysis … ofinternational trade studies, using a technique that is known as meta-analysis. The paper presentsa statistically supported … regulation and competitiveness are when itcomes to studies on international trade flows. The synthesis of the literature is …

This paper studies the linkage between international trade and income convergence across countries. Different theories … the trade impact on income convergence, a long-lasting problem is the reverse causality from income convergence to trade …. This paper provides a disaggregated bilateral trade data analysis to solve this problem. The results show that the reverse …