, intermediate goods, and multiple factors of production—affect the magnitude of the gains from trade liberalization. We conclude by …

this paper, we examine how international trade regimes affect the costs of conflict and, in turn, how the desirability of … international trade is affected by these costs. We consider both domestic and international conflict. Trade openness reduces the …. For countries that export such goods, trade openness intensifies conflict. The effect of conflict on the allocation of …

-- Chapter 4: Income Gains and Inequality Costs -- Chapter 5: The Trade-Off -- Chapter 6: Alternative Models -- Chapter 7: HIT …: Household Impacts of Trade -- Chapter 8: Conclusions -- Bibliography. …This volume examines the relationship between trade liberalization policies and income inequality in developing …

This paper revisits the relationship between international trade and economic growth. We measure trade openness indices … in explaining growth gains from trade. Using sectoral level data from WORLD KLEMS Database on industrial productivity and … output and global input output tables to construct the measures of trade openness, our empirical analysis covering 21 …

econometric methodology. Chapter 1 applies an econometric gravity analysis to bilateral trade flows to assess how successful the … European Schengen Agreement has been in boosting international trade. It proposes a new indicator variable to account for the …

equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive database covering manufacturing trade for 186 … countries over the period 1980-2016, we find that the average impact of GATT/WTO membership on trade among member counties is … for non-member countries. We show that countries not experiencing positive trade effects from joining GATT/WTO can still …

distributions - affects trade patterns along both the extensive and intensive margin. The idea that similarity of demand structures … intensifies trade goes back to the well-known Linder hypothesis. Based on a sample of 102 countries, I find that bilateral trade … range of incomes for which two distributions overlap - and document that both are important determinants of bilateral trade …