Chapter 1: Tariff-Rebate on Intermediate Inputs for Exportables in a Two-period Model with Learning-from-Exporting -- Chapter 2: Trade Policy during COVID -- Chapter 3: Ronald W. Jones as a General Equilibrium Theorist in a Classical Mold: International Trade through the Ricardo-Viner-Jones...

We examine the impact of economic deregulation on employer evasion of union-mandated "formal" wage-contracts in an import-competing industry. We show that, if the state maintains industrial employment despite import liberalisation, through cheaper credit to firms, then employer evasion will...