The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of increased trade on wage inequality in developing countries, and …, increased trade is likely to induce less inequality on impact because the supply of skills better matches demand. But greater …. We also employ a broad set of openness indicators to measure trade liberalization policies as well as general openness …

This paper evaluates the efficiency and distributional effects of trade liberalization in the context of fiscal reform … from only trade liberalization the combined tax and tariff reforms. Finally, additional simulations have been performed to … is that trade liberalization is pro-rich due essentially to the higher share of imported goods consumed by the rich. …

To examine the impact of trade barrier reductions on the Chinese economy following its WTO accession, a single … total exports would increase far less. China's trade surplus is, therefore, likely to shrink substantially and its … dependence upon foreign trade is likely to rise by a few percentage points. A sensitivity analysis confirms the robustness of the …

This paper analyzes trade-related knowledge flows from an innovating country to other countries. It is assumed that …-biased technical change in the receiving sectors. Trade-related knowledge transmission is introduced in an applied multi-region general … equilibrium model (GTAP) to study the macro-economic and sectoral impacts of knowledge spillovers and of trade policies …

We have used the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade to simulate the economic effects on the United States …, Japan, and other major trading countries/regions of the Doha Round of WTO multilateral trade negotiations and a variety of … regional/bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) involving the United States and Japan. We estimate that an assumed reduction of …