Purpose: This study constructs a quantitative tool that can interpret the effects of trade protectionism on trading … partners. Design/methodology/approach: Trade protectionist policies are a crucial phenomenon of international political economy …. The existing literature has analyzed the consequences, causes, and effects of trade protectionist policies. A principal …

role in transmitting these imbalances across countries through the global trade and production network. Fourth, global …

We offer a new explanation as to why international trade is so volatile in response to economic shocks. Our approach … combines the uncertainty shock idea of Bloom (2009) with a model of trade, extending the idea to the open economy. Firms import … international trade flows than in domestic activity. We confront the model with newly-compiled U.S. import data and industrial …

As East Asia becomes increasingly integrated through market-driven trade and FDI activities, free trade agreements … participation of low-income countries and reduce trade-related business costs, particularly for small and medium enterprises. A … plausible regional trade arrangements. …

signatories’ potential to increase economic cooperation by applying five different trade indexes. The findings reveal different … in favor of the establishment of a Preferential Trade Agreement among the TPS signatories. …

The paper estimates the causal effect of trade liberalisation on aggregate productivity through mechanisms related to … to export and therefore expand their output share. The two largest sectors in Malmö are wholesale trade and manufacturing …

bilateral trade in goods and services. We find that more financially open economies effectively catch-up faster and trade more … deepening and other factors determining growth and trade. …

In this paper we compare the patterns of trade and financial integration by exploiting network analysis. Our results … on the topological structure and properties of the international trade and financial networks (ITN and IFN). We find that … central ones and use them as hubs to access the rest of the network. -- International Trade ; International Financial Flows …