A European debate over measures ostensibly to fully achieve a single market for electronic communications across the EU was brought to a head by the European Commission's 2013 proposed Telecoms Single Market (TSM) legislative package. The Commission apparently hoped to achieve a Single European...

This paper explores the quantitative consequences of transatlantic trade liberalization envisioned in a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union. Our key innovation is to develop a new quantitative spatial trade model and to use an...