specialization and trade: products where timely delivery is important will be produced near the source of final demand, where wages …

This paper develops a quantitative, multi-country model of endogenous growth, international trade, and international … about and applying research previously conducted abroad. The effect of trade barriers on the level and dispersion of income … across countries is found to be larger than would be predicted by a static trade model, and the effect of access to …

In this chapter, Daniel Schwanen addresses the impact of the major trade liberalization efforts undertaken by Canada … and its trading partners beginning with the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in 1989. The author focuses in … particular on the question of whether liberalized trade could have been a factor behind the emergence of greater inequalities in …

domestic profits for a large sample of U.S. manufacturing industries. In our model, trade barriers alter the ability of … domestic market structure to influence domestic performance. The results indicate that trade flows behave as expected in …

tariffs. First, we solve a stylized 2x2 trade model of a large open economy and show that (a) productivity gains via exports … that the incentive to manipulate the terms of trade strategically vanishes, (c) the welfare gain that can be achieved via a … trade-induced productivity gains into account. The USA are the only model region that gains from European optimal tariff …

We investigate theoretically and empirically the competitive effects of increased trade on prices, productivity and … bias of monetary policy. Our results suggest that increased trade could account for as much as a quarter of European …

will be net exporters in scale-intensive industries. The hypotheses are empirically tested by studying the trade of each …