1 TRADE TALKS Peace, Protection, and the Rise of Free Trade -- THE FRANCO-BRITISH COMMERCIAL TREATY OF 1713 -- FREE TRADE AFTER UTRECHT -- THE COMMERCIAL TREATY PROPOSAL OF 1772 -- THE EDEN-RAYNEVAL TREATY OF 1786 -- 2 A SYSTEM OF COLLECTIVE RESTRAINT Spanish America, Freedom of Trade, and the...

Econometric evaluations of public-sponsored training programmes generally find little evidence of an impact of such policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We perform the first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults in France, exploiting a unique longitudinal dataset...

The analysis of economic loss attributed to the shadow economy has attracted much attention in recent years by both academics and policy makers. Often, multiple indicators multiple causes (MIMIC) models are applied to time series data estimating the size and development of the shadow economy for...