This paper analyses the influence of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) programme on the garment industry. It evaluates costs and benefits and the factors affecting TAA certification and denial processes of petitions for firms and displaced import-impacted garment employees following trade...

This paper builds an econometric model that attempts to explain the effect of global trade on the environment from data provided by the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) at Purdue University. We estimated stable parameters for econometric models to forecast the impact of doubling carbon...

Purpose – To assess not how Samuelson's individual models contributed to human knowledge but the very true foundation on which they rest, namely, sound theory, facts, and philosophy. Design/methodology/approach – This article has placed Samuelson as a philosopher seeking the truth, and as a...