macroeconomic and trade policies to promote gender equity. The evidence suggests that while liberalization has expanded women …

This paper argues that the empirical trade-growth relationship should be modelled using a dynamic panel data approach … than previous results. They confirm the existence of a strong causal effect of trade on growth but fail to find evidence … for trade as an independent factor of divergence. Hence, one cannot blame trade as such for the disappointing performance …

We work with a panel of bilateral trade flows from 1988 to 2002, exploring the influence of infrastructure …, institutional quality, colonial and geographic context, and trade preferences on the pattern of bilateral trade. We are interested … in threshold effects, and so emphasize those cases where bilateral country pairs do not actually trade. We depart from …

, regulation of trade and investment flows, and gender-sensitive public sector spending. …

the causal connection between lack of exposure to commercial trade and proclivity to sudden stops. On the theoretical … front, the paper shows how exposure to trade raises the creditworthiness of countries and reduces the probability of sudden … trade increases the likelihood of default. A sudden stop takes place when the borrowers reject the amount that lenders want …

Openness to trade is one factor that has been identified as determining whether a country is prone to sudden stops in … problem that trade is endogenous. Using the gravity instrument for trade openness, which is constructed from geographical … determinants of bilateral trade, this paper finds that openness indeed makes countries less vulnerable, both to severe sudden stops …

sign of alleviation in pollutant concentration due to income growth is discernible; trade is found to be insignificant …

We investigate the effect of trade integration on interstate military conflict. Our empirical analysis, based on a … large panel data set of 243,225 country-pair observations from 1950 to 2000, confirms that an increase in bilateral trade … interdependence significantly promotes peace. It also suggests that the peace-promotion effect of bilateral trade integration is …

We generalize the No-trade theorem for finite unawareness belief structures in Heifetz, Meier, and Schipper (2009) to …