Extensive research has demonstrated the existence of large potential welfare gains from trade facilitation—measures to … those benefits are distributed across and within nations. After discussing the possible impacts of trade facilitation, we … benefit from trade facilitation. We find that firms of all sizes export more in response to improved trade facilitation. Our …

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 …

The Paper analyses (i) if globalization is undemocratic, (ii) if NGOs can fill a gap in representation and … accountability, and (iii) the role of inter-governmental (undemocratic) international institutions like the World Bank with regard to … democracy and globalization. A major part deals with the question of whether globalization enhances democracy. The answer is …

shows that borders and distance impede trade by much more than tariffs or transports costs can explain. We therefore … ict forged a world economy in which neither tastes nor information are homogeneously distributed. Cultural difference and …

of trade. Regression results suggest that import protection makes income distribution worse for countries in labour …

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 …

sources into those attributable to productivity events in the core and to globalization forces connecting core to periphery …-1878. There were three forces at work that account for Mexican exceptionalism: first, the terms of trade and Dutch disease effects …

equilibrium model of trade and offshoring. This reveals that globalization and offshoring have two opposing effects on relative … falling trade costs for goods. However, we also find that if the globalization process continues as a result of reduced costs … fact been bell-shaped. We argue that this bell-shaped evolution of wage inequality can be linked to globalization and a …

This paper analyzes empirically the relationship between civil wars and international trade. We first show that trade … presence of two effects that trade can have on the risk of civil conflicts: it may act as a deterrent if trade gains are put at … risk during civil wars but it may also act as an insurance if international trade provides a substitute to internal trade …

the period 1975-2005. In particular, it tests a) whether increases in trade lead to rising inequalities, b) whether these … inequalities recede in time, and c) whether increases in global trade affect the developed and developing worlds differently. Using … static and dynamic panel data analysis, it is found that while increases in trade per se do not lead to greater territorial …