The paper surveys the interactions between aid and trade, distinguishing between policies and outcomes as well as … recipient’s welfare via the trade channel, before turning to the empirical and institutional literature on the topic. It …

world-wide SO2 emissions and estimate the impact of trade on emissions. Contrarily to concerns raised by environmentalists … reduction in emissions. A second exercise comparing the actual trade situation with an autarky benchmark estimates that trade …

This paper employs worldwide data on output and bilateral trade in order to identify optimum currency areas (OCA’s) on … trade, some large continental OCA’s can be discerned in the world. Adding the second criterion, which concerns symmetry …

This paper analyses theoretically and empirically the relationship between trade and war. We show that the intuition … that trade promotes peace is only partially true even in a model where trade is beneficial to all, war reduces trade and … probability of escalation is indeed lower for countries that trade more bilaterally because of the opportunity cost associated …

This paper explores the link between trade and European labour markets by using evidence on relative commodity prices …

What is the impact of terrorism on trade through higher security at the borders? We set up a theory which shows that … the impact goes not only from terrorism to trade; higher trade with a partner might, in turn, increase the probability of … products. These results suggest that security to prevent terrorism does matter for trade. …

of natural selection are made weaker because trade allows people to specialize in those activities where they are strong …, and to offset their weaknesses by purchasing adequate goods on the market. Absent trade, people must allocate their time … alleles at all locations. Under trade, there exist long-run equilibria where less fit individuals are able to achieve the same …