emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower …-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … the unequal impacts of trade can manifest along different margins. Recent evidence from countries across Europe and the US …

of the British pound vis-a-vis the euro and led to considerable uncertainty about future trade relations between the UK …

We introduce a simple oligopolistic trade model with international transportation costs, and analyze the profitability … trade freeness, (ii) the possibility of rent appropriation on world markets, and (iii) direct "synergy" effects of mergers …. -- mergers ; national champions ; international trade ; economic integration …

This paper explores the quantitative consequences of transatlantic trade liberalization envisioned in a Transatlantic … Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union. Our key innovation is to develop a … new quantitative spatial trade model and to use an associated technique which is extraordinarily parsimonious and tightly …

The international economic debate on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has focused mainly on … trade induced real income gains while the FDI related and innovation induced benefits have been largely neglected, although … trade related real income gains in the context of TTIP - also contributes to new knowledge and a fortiori to higher GDP …

affect labour markets in the EU, namely i) trade, ii) foreign direct investment, and iii) migration. A main conclusion of the … study is that trade and capital movements are very unlikely to lead to an equalisation of factor prices. Thus, strong …