integration between the European Union and developing countries by removing barriers to trade: trade preferences and trade … practitioners and researchers in both areas, the paper concludes that while at least some trade preferences actually have been less … of a failure than their reputation suggests, trade facilitation is a far more promising policy option for the future …

This paper provides a selective survey of over half a century of research linking the neoclassical trade model to the … data. Three lessons stand out. First, competitive and new trade theory models are complementary rather than competing ways … core predictions of the model provide scientific support for employing the competitive trade model in structural estimation …