search for a job-type that matches their skill. They face a trade-off between match quality and the cost of extended search …. This trade-off differs between regions, because search is more efficient in larger regions. Then, interregional mobility … and trade lead to a pattern of specialization where large scale regions have a comparative advantage in producing …

We empirically investigate the responsiveness of international trade to the stringency of environmental regulation … equilibrium model of trade and pollution nesting the pollution haven motive for trade with the factor endowment motive. We analyze … show that trade patterns in ‘dirty’ commodities are jointly determined by relative factor endowments and environmental …

of trade. Regression results suggest that import protection makes income distribution worse for countries in labor …

This paper studies the intangible costs of international trade by extending the basic gravity equation with measures of … cultural and institutional distance, and institutional quality. Analyzing a sample of bilateral trade flows between 92 … countries in 1999, we find that institutional distance has a negative effect on bilateral trade, presumably because the …

This paper examines international trade in tainted food and other low-quality products. Wefirst find that for a large … class of environments, free trade is the trading system that conveysthe highest incentives to produce non-tainted high …-quality goods by foreign exporters.However, free trade cannot prevent the export of tainted products, and the condition fortainting …

Lack of adequate infrastructure is a significant inhibitor to increased trade of the countries of the Mediterranean … it as a percentage of GDP. Finally we make tentative estimates of how much trade might be generated and how this might …, although the investments in some countries would be between 1.4% and 4.5% of GDP. The impact on non-oil international trade …

Economic theory has made considerable progress in explaining why sovereign countries cooperate in trade. Central to … most theories of trade cooperation are issues of self-enforcement: The threat of reprisal by an aggrieved party maintains … explaining why countries choose to settle and enforce their trade disputes with the help of an impartial third party, a “trade …

This paper argues that different types of trade liberalization { multilateral versus regional { may lead to different R …&D and productivity levels of firms. Trade agreements between countries are modelled with a network: nodes represent … countries and a link between the nodes indicates the existence of a trade agreement. In this framework, the multilateral trade …

for these effects by focusing on trade policy, a ubiquitous but often overlooked source of uncertainty, when a firm's cost … of export market entry is sunk. While an explicit purpose of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is to secure long term … prospective exporters. Within a dynamic model of heterogeneous firms, I show that trade policy uncertainty will delay the entry of …

competitiveness perspectives that fuses climate change and trade regimes in potentially problematic ways as governments contemplate … trade actions to manage the environmental and/or competitiveness consequences of differential climate change policies. On … the trade side of this relationship, we have the reality that the GATT/WTO rules were not originally drafted to …