international trade and two groups of countries that differ with respect to fuel demand and environmental damage. It investigates …

We build and estimate a structural dynamic general equilibrium model of growth and trade. Trade affects growth through …, growth affects trade, directly through changes in country size and indirectly through altering the incidence of trade costs …. Theory translates into an intuitive econometric system that identifies the causal impact of trade on income and growth, and …

communication technology - contributes to integration by reducing transaction costs and facilitating intraregional trade and … Asia will bring significant opportunities for industrial development in India and trade potential with South and East Asian …

Despite the growing political priority given to making trade work for the majority in Latin America, a notable gap … exists in the knowledge about the distributive impacts of trade integration. This study attempts to fill this gap: it surveys … the most recent contributions to the mainstream trade economics literature, assesses their relevance for Latin America and …

This paper analyzes whether Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) signed between the United States and Latin American countries … empirical strategy benefits from the fact that about half of Latin American countries have signed a trade agreement with the … of labor inspectors and a 60 percent increase in the number of inspections. The North American Free Trade Agreement …

Although empirical evidence shows that the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade is complex … different locations of vertically-related stages of production and distinguishing between trade in finished goods and trade in … intermediate goods, this paper introduces a non monotonic relationship between multinational firms and trade costs, which must be …

'agglomeration in a system of cities' in which both intra-city trade and inter-city trade are considered. Enriching both the … economic (i.e. intensity of trade) integration, the higher is the magnitude of the inefficiency. From a theoretical point of …

not). This multigraph analysis is based on two databases, one regarding world trade from 1967 until today (CHELEM database …

The openness to international trade and capital movements of industrialized countries has increased substantially …. Overall, the empirical findings do not indicate that international trade and capital mobility raise income differences in …