impacts of specific trade reforms. The author presents case studies for China and Morocco. Both the macro and micro approaches …There has been much debate about how much poor people in developing countries gain from trade openness, as one aspect … considerable heterogeneity in the welfare impacts of trade openness, with both gainers and losers among the poor. The author …

trade. Its success contradicts its characterization as an example of export-led growth and highlights the role of the state …. -- trade and development ; trade liberalization ; foreign direct investment ; globalization ; WTO accession ; asian financial …

trade. Its success contradicts its characterization as an example of export-led growth and highlights the role of the state …

Trade between the U.S. and China is widely thought to have contributed significantly to the decline in U … trade growth between 2000 and 2007: We divide China into prefecture-level cities and construct measures of export exposure … based on a city's initial industry specialization and instrument China's export surge using the reduction in trade policy …

We quantify the effect of container technology on transport costs and trade by estimating the modal choice between … containerization and breakbulk shipping using micro-level trade data. The model is motivated by novel facts that relate container usage … trade increase since its inception: a quantitative exercise suggests that Turkish and U.S. maritime exports would have been …

This paper examines the relationship between the shadow economy and trade openness in Uganda, using autoregressive … distributed lag bounds testing approach. We find that the shadow economy and trade openness have a long- and short … exposure to foreign trade significantly reduces the size of the shadow economy. This could imply that as countries become more …

This paper evaluates the impact of China's WTO entry and the establishment of a free-trade agreement between China and … ASEAN on the ASEAN-5 (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand). We examine the trade competition between … the two regions using a market-share model and assess the impact of China's WTO entry on the ASEAN-5 with an exchange rate …

strong though not definitive evidence of an ideological realignment in trade-exposed local labor markets that commences prior … to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …, we find that trade exposed electoral districts simultaneously exhibit growing ideological polarization in some domains …