thus, lost employment opportunities. This paper evaluates the relationship between regional trade agreements using a …

Unlike many countries, Egypt did not experience significant labor market improvements following trade liberalization … export expansion, this is not occurring at a large enough scale to be felt at the macro level. To seize the benefits of trade …

We investigate the effect of economic sanctions on trade flows in countries sharing a border with sanctioned states …. According to trade models, sanctions are expected to reduce trade flows as they disrupt established trading routes and economic … relationships with suppliers and customers. However, there may also be instances where countries circumvent trade restrictions by …

This paper investigates the impact of agricultural trade liberalization on economic activity and political violence in … emerging countries. We use data on all Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) signed between 25 low- and middle-income countries … and their high-income trade partners between 1995 and 2013. We exploit the implied reduction in agricultural tariffs over …

the negative consequences of adverse geography, improve trade facilitation to exploit learning-by-exporting from intra …-African trade, and facilitate urbanization. …

competition due to the dismantling of import quotas as China entered the World Trade Organization to show, first, that rising …-wage occupations due to trade compared to moving from mid- to low-wage occupations. Employing task content information of detailed …

international trade increasing competition and therefore the price elasticity of product demand, exporters are predicted to have …

Pareto optimum, labor mobility (social capital) is excessively large (depleted); iii) trade is superior to labor market …