To address security concerns, governments often implement trade barriers and restrictions on the movement of goods and …

This paper investigates the impact of agricultural trade liberalization on economic activity and political violence in … emerging countries. We use data on all Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) signed between 25 low- and middle-income countries … and their high-income trade partners between 1995 and 2013. We exploit the implied reduction in agricultural tariffs over …

Financial development plays an important role in the structure of the trade balance and promoting economic development …. Trade literature suggests that differences in economies’ endowments of labour, land, physical capital and technology explain … the dynamics and patterns of international trade flows. More recent literature argues that it is the heterogeneity in …

LMU Munich in February 2019. It consists of four selfcontained chapters that empirically investigate different trade … dampening phenomena using gravity analysis. The first two chapters examine the effects of anti-dumping duties on trade …, addressing endogeneity concerns linked to trade policy. In particular, Chapter 1 exploits the EU enlargement of 2004 as a natural …