Free Trade locates the source of that success in the innovative policy by which the Company’s Court of Directors granted … employees the right to pursue their own commercial interests while in the firm’s employ. Exploring trade network dynamics … was a dominant force in the expansion of trade between Europe and Asia, and she sheds light on the related problems of why …

Quantifications of gains from trade in heterogeneous firm models assume that productivity is Pareto distributed … better fit to sales distributions—especially in the left tail. The cost of log-normal is that gains from trade depend on the … firm sales in a given market, the log-normal assumption delivers gains from trade in a symmetric two country model that can …

Openness per se requires optimal monetary policy to deviate from the canonical closed-economy principle of domestic … price of food and in the world price of imported oil act as exogenous cost-push factors. …

fluctuations are poorly related to trade and financial linkages. Mediterranean cycles are time varying but their evolution is not …

environment that captures the effects of interregional and intersectoral trade in propagating disaggregated productivity changes … pairwise interregional trade across all 50 U.S. states, 26 traded and non-traded industries, labor as a mobile factor, and … matches the U.S. input-output matrix. Using data on trade flows by industry between states, as well as other regional and …

This Economica Coase Lecture reviews research that has revolutionized the field of international trade and foreign …

, wheat) at low prices and sold them on world markets at much higher prices, a policy equivalent to an export tax. Ali also … Egyptian history than from other poor countries at that time since Egypt faced the same terms of trade boom typical of most …

The paper proposes a general model that will encompass trade and social benefits of a common language, a preference for … externalities and international trade that are typically treated separately. …