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 …

-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 …

-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 …

This paper explores the economic impacts of preferential trade agreements, conditional on their level of ambition. We … cluster 278 agreements, encompassing 910 provisions over 18 policy areas and estimate the trade elasticity for the different …, revealing that deepening existing agreements (the intensive margin of regional integration) could boost world trade by 5 percent …

trade that historically have been addressed largely separately: the (partial) effects on trade of economic integration … of economic integration agreements (EIAs) on members’ trade may be biased upward owing to inadequate control for … intranational trade); we find evidence of this bias using a properly specified gravity equation. Second, our novel methodology …

This paper uses a gravity model to assess ex-post regional trade agreements. The model includes 130 countries and is … of Vinerian trade creation and trade diversion effects, while the estimation method takes into account a potential … generated a significant increase in trade between members, often at the expense of the rest of the world …

The gravity model is a workhorse tool that has been widely used in international trade. However, one empirical question … factor information related to geographical, cultural, political and economic variables that might a ect international trade …

Recent theoretical work on international trade emphasizes the importance of trade elasticity as the fundamental …, where exporter fixed effects are regressed on proxies for technology and wages. Within the same Ricardian model of trade …, the trade share provides an alternative source of identication for the elasticity of trade. Following Santos Silva and …

We investigate the consequences of redistribution policy on migration and trade in a Standard two-good Heckscher …-Ohlin framework. With free trade and factor price equalization, abolishing migration barriers is redundant. With the introduction of … rieh country to stop short of a relaxation of migration barriers. Rather, a pure free trade regime without migration proves …

We investigate the consequences of redistribution policy on migration and trade in a Standard two-good Heckscher …-Ohlin framework. With free trade and factor price equalization, abolishing migration barriers is redundant. With the introduction of … rieh country to stop short of a relaxation of migration barriers. Rather, a pure free trade regime without migration proves …