We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade on interregional inequality within countries. We … estimate a model derived from a structural economic geography approach where interregional inequality depends on weighted trade … shares and trade costs and where we can derive an aggregate freeness of trade measure. These measures are instrumented based …

Earlier work established the notion that international terrorism harms international trade. This evidence was based on … trade only in the medium run (more than one-and-a-half years after an attack/incident). The findings in this paper suggest … that the purely economic short-run impact of international terror on trade is negligible. This does not mean that terror is …

We investigate the effect of economic integration agreements on the stability of international trade at the 4 digit … SITC level. Using annual trade data for over 180 countries from 1962 to 2005 we examine how economic integration agreements … affect the length of trade relationships, the volume at the start of new trade relationships, and how quickly trade grows …

In the 2000s, China's WTO entry constituted a major trade shock. In this paper, we analyze its eff ects on trade and … trade contains this information. We build a multi-sector gravity model of the Eaton and Kortum (2002) type with inter …-sectoral linkages that gives rise to a gravity equation for value added trade flows. As in Koopman et al. (forthcoming), exports can be …

Krugman's (1979, 1980) monoplistic competition model of trade showed that countries with more similar per-capita GDP … trade more with each other. Does this mean that developing countries shift trade towards developed countries as a result of … high economic growth? The results reported in this paper challenge the link between per-capita GDP and trade predicted by …

What are the welfare and employment consequences of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) for developing and emerging … countries? Standard quantitative models of international trade which are generally used to assess the impact of PTAs assume full … countries to evaluate observed trade liberalization episodes since 1950, taking into account the general equilibrium trade …