Using matched worker/plant level data for Norway, trade and technology explanations for the change in skill composition …

growth rates, empirical research indicates that partial trade liberalization between more open economies has ambiguous growth …

In this paper we examine optimal strategic trade p[olicy under oligopoly with many home and foreign firms when the … firms have different levels of efficiency and where a trade-off exists between the subsidy bill and firms profits. The first …

This paper studies the effect on Anglo-Irish trade breaking the link between the Irish pound and sterling in 1979. A … currency union. Nor did the resultant exchange rate volatility have a significant adverse effect on trade. These results do not … support the belief that currency unions result in increased trade flows, either directly or by reducing exchange rate …

This paper studies non-cooperative commodity taxation in a trade model with imperfect competition and trade costs …

-industry trade and "new economic geography" agglomeration forces. The simulations focus on successful transformation in Eastern …

has been a process of economic integration between countries, bringing down costs of trade. At first sight, the increased … importance of FDI seems paradoxical; we would expect lower trade costs to promote trade rather than direct investment. This paper … demonstrates that a reduction in trade costs may indeed induce firms to choose FDI rather than exports. We also demonstrate that …