Standard trade theory relies on the assumption of long-run full-employment, thus implying that although trade can … the empirical literature, it is a controversial debate that trade openness is good for employment in the long-run. If so …, the further question is about the poorer regions in the developing countries which are fully open to trade. Turkey is one …

analysis of the geography of trade relations (i.e. the size, the composition and the direction of exports and imports flows …) between the EU and the ENP countries. The findings of the paper illustrate the emerging patterns of trade relations among the …

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 associated technique which is extraordinarily parsimonious and tightly …

production technology and utility functions, interregional trade pooling, concave-shaped iceberg transport costs, the Armington …

rise in trade integration on German labor markets between 1988 and 2008, using detailed administrative data. We exploit the … variation in initial industry variation across German regions, before the onset of these trade shocks, and instrument for … regional import and export exposure using trade flows from other highly-developed countries with East Europe and China. We find …

We develop a framework for studying how differences in the level and/or dispersion of per-capita income affect trade …. We then show that in line with the home-market effect countries have a trade surplus in the good for which they have …-exporter of luxuries. The structure of trade is irrelevant for welfare in the open economy if both sectors pay the same wage. If …