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Adam Smith and the patriotism of partnership

Matson, Erik W. - 2025

This article treats Smith's writings on patriotism and universal benevolence in the final edition of The Theory of Moral Sentiments by placing them in some broader contexts. Smith affirmed proper patriotism as virtuous and consistent with the Christian ethic of universal benevolence. Proper...

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Adam Smith and the Patriotism of Partnership

Matson, Erik W. - 2023

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Can plurilateral agreements save global free trade?

Chochua, Lasha; Lake, James; Willmann, Gerald - 2026

• we analyze plurilateral trade agreements that liberalize trade in particular products among a range of countries • the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) covers around 12% of global trade • our theory shows that such agreements can be a way forward for multilateral liberalization in...

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A world by themselves : protectionism and the political economy of trade in the Ohio Valley : 1816-1828

Harris, Keith - 2025

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Free trade and subnational development : economic activity and human welfare

Cruzatti, John - 2025

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Freihandel, anyone? : Effekte handelspolitischer Szenarien zwischen der Schweiz und den USA

Christen, Elisabeth; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Mahlkow, Hendrik - 2025

Die Studie analysiert die potenziellen wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen verschiedener handelspolitischer Szenarien zwischen der Schweiz und den USA. Die USA sind nach der Europäischen Union der wichtigste Handelspartner der Schweiz, der auch mittelfristig hohe Wachstumsaussichten bietet. Mithilfe...

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An alliance for open trade : how to counter Trump's tariffs

Hinz, Julian; Head, Keith; Méjean, Isabelle; Ornelas, … - 2025

Trump's renewed tariffs on traditional allies-including the EU, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil-signal a return to aggressive protectionism, openly disregarding WTO rules and threatening the stability of the global trade system. The authors argue that unilateral retaliation by individual countries is...

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Trade negotiations under fire : social identity and the rising opposition to free trade

Keller, Susanne; Krautheim, Sebastian - 2025

Massive protests against - and spectacular failures of - international trade negotiations are an important element of the globalization backlash developed economies have experienced over the last two decades. We analyze a model of endogenous social identity where the government chooses between...

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Imperative of a new trade doctrine in the era of protectionism

Mahajan, Ashwini - 2025

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Foreign deficit and economic policy : the case of Mexico

Huerta González, Arturo - 2024

The article analyzes Mexico under globalization, particularly on the free mobility of capital. It argues that globalization has detrimentally impacted the productive and external sectors, causing the economy to become excessively reliant on volatile capital inflows from abroad. The Mexican...

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Foreign deficit and economic policy: The case of Mexico

Huerta González, Arturo - 2024

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Exploring the effects of FTAs on Chilean exports: heterogeneous responses and financial constraints

Álvarez, Roberto; Andreasen, Eugenia - 2024

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The AfCFTA and the entrepôt economy : a clash of free trade and political realities

Odijie, Michael E. - 2024

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Significance of economic openness for the origins of social insurance policies in the initial stage : a comparative study

Matsunaga, Tomoari - 2024

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Exploring the effects of FTAs on Chilean exports : heterogeneous responses and financial constraints

Alvarez, Robert; Andreasen, Eugenia - 2024

In this paper, we examine the influence of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on Chilean exports during the past thirty years. Over the last three decades, Chile has entered into 31 FTAs with 65 countries, encompassing nearly 90% of global GDP. Despite this, there's a notable absence of empirical...

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Role of international price and domestic inflation in triggering export restrictions on food commodities

Mamun, Abdullah; Laborde Debucquet, David - 2024

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Formation of climate coalitions and preferential free trade : the case for participation linkage

Kuhn, Thomas; Pestow, Radomir; Zenker, Anja - 2024

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Formation of climate coalitions and preferential free trade : the case for participation linkage

Kuhn, Thomas; Pestow, Radomir; Zenker, Anja - 2022

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The dynamics of FDI inflows, economic growth, trade openness and CO₂ emissions in India : an ARDL approach with structural breaks

Manickam, Tamilselvan; Vijayakumar, N. C.; Kumar, G. Sathis - 2026

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Exploring the N-Curve of CO₂ emissions : the interactive roles of trade, manufacturing, financial development, and fiscal policy across income groups

Fildzah, Lina Absharina; Liana, Damia; Rafi'i, Rafi'i; … - 2026

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When trade compresses: the impact of liberalization on wage inequality

Martinez, Victor Hernandez; Kozeniauskas, Nicholas; … - 2026

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Essays on trade, environment, and regulation

2026

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Trade liberalization and third-market effects

Defever, Fabrice; Ornelas, Emanuel - 2026

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Trade liberalization and third-market effects

Defever, Fabrice; Ornelas, Emanuel - 2026

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Trade liberalization and third-market effects

Defever, Fabrice; Ornelas, Emanuel - 2026

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Golden Vision 2045 : Reaping the Gains from Trade

Habib, Ashique - 2026

Indonesia has been pursuing a broad push towards greater trade openness with regional and global partners, seeking to leverage external demand to reach high-income status by 2045. This welcome and timely effort comes amid ongoing trade policy shocks. Our analysis suggests that deeper trade...

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Open dumps and the global trade in garbage

Gordon, Matthew; Papp, Anna - 2026

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Beyond retaliation : South Africa can effectively counter Trump's trade shocks

Rossouw, Riaan; Cameron, Martin; Naudé, Wim - 2026

How should a developing country such as South Africa respond to the USA's "Liberation Day" Tariffs of April 2025 and subsequent shocks? Combining the GTAP-Dynamic (GDyn) Computable General Equilibrium model with an expanded Decision Support Model (DSM), we simulate five policy response scenarios...

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Inclusive growth in South Africa? : inequality dynamics and the role of trade openness vs tax policies

Bargain, Olivier; Benhura, Miracle; Jara, H. Xavier; … - 2026

Market forces, and notably the role of trade openness, contribute to shaping inequality in South Africa and may limit the inclusiveness of its growth path. Recently, policy reforms may have helped to mitigate these effects. To better understand these developments, we analyse trends in post-tax...

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Inclusive growth in South Africa? : inequality dynamics and the role of trade openness vs tax policies

Bargain, Olivier; Jara, H. Xavier; Kwenda-Magejo, Prudence - 2026

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Kingdom of Lesotho Gender Dimensions of Trade Facilitation

2026

This study is one component of broader World Bank trade facilitation assistance program provided to the government of the Kingdom of Lesotho (hereafter referred as Lesotho). This note presents key findings from the study, which focused on identifying the challenges faced by women owned, led or...

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A world trading system for whom? : evidence from global tariffs

Adao, Rodrigo; Becko, John Sturm; Costinot, Arnaud; … - 2026 - This version: December 2025

We use global tariffs to reveal the weights that nations implicitly place on the welfare of their trading partners relative to their own. Our estimated welfare weights suggest that formal and informal rules of the world trading system make countries internalize the impact of their policies onto...

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A world trading system for whom? : evidence from global tariffs

Adao, Rodrigo; Becko, John Sturm; Costinot, Arnaud; … - 2026

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Who fears job losses from U.S. tariff hikes? : evidence from Cambodia

Tanaka, Kiyoyasu; Ueki, Yasushi - 2026

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EU integration after the Liberal International Order

Hansen, Olle - 2026

The European Union (EU) emerged as a product and beneficiary of the Liberal International Order (LIO). Yet, as this order disintegrates, marked by multipolarity, thin multilateralism, and the return of power politics, the EU has taken unprecedented integrative steps, including joint debt...

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Role of economies of scale for the external tariffs and trade agreement formation : a theoretical and empirical investigation

Azeem, Muhammad; Stoyanov, Andrey; Yildiz, Halis Murat - 2026

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New importer dynamics and the effects of trade shocks

Gimenez Perales, Victor - 2026

New importers increase their conditional survival rate and import share over time. However, a model of multi-input firms with an import entry cost and stochastic import costs cannot replicate these dynamics. I show that an extended model can be reconciled with the data. I calibrate both models...

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Plurilateral trade agreements : a complementary margin to preferential liberalization

Chochua, Lasha; Lake, James; Willmann, Gerald - 2026

We show that plurilateral agreements facilitate global tariff liberalization by creating an MFN-based margin of cooperation that leaves preferential access via preferential trade agreements (PTAs) unchanged. In a model of endogenous trade agreement formation with farsighted governments, PTAs...

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Plurilateral trade agreements : a complementary margin to preferential liberalization

Chochua, Lasha; Lake, James; Willmann, Gerald - 2026

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ASEAN at a crossroads : pathways for deeper economic integration

Allen Ng; Andhare, Kriti; Ang, Yohnsen; Inayoshi, Naoaki; … - 2026

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Fragmenting the multilateral trade system : the rise of JSIs at the WTO

Singh, Shailja; Dash, Priyadarshi; Agarwal, Pragyan - 2026

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WTO MC14 and trade-sustainability nexus : strategic choices ahead

Anuradha, R V; Kher, Rajeev; Gupta, Anshuman; Ganti, … - 2026

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Investment facilitation for development at WTO : issues and implications

Shaik, Anwar Hussain; Vashisht, Pankaj; Aggarwal, Vaasu - 2026

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WTO Reform for an Inclusive Multilateral Trading System

Singh, Harsha V.; Kaushik, Atul; Lahiri, Teesta - 2026

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Trade openness and innovation performance in the EU : an analysis of cluster dynamics

Loučanová, Erika; Olšiaková, Miriam; Paluš, Hubert - 2026

In the modern globalized context, innovation represents a key driver of economic growth, while international trade plays an important role in fostering it. This study examines the relationship between the degree of trade openness and innovation performance across 27 EU member states over the...

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Trade, growth, and logistics performance : dynamic and distributional insights into the drivers of CO₂ emissions in the Mediterranean Basin

Katrakylidis, Ioannis; Athanasenas, Athanasios; Madas, … - 2026

This paper examines how logistics performance conditions the relationship between trade openness, economic growth and per capita CO₂ emissions in Mediterranean economies. Using an unbalanced panel of 20 countries over the period 2007-2022, we combine static fixed-effects, dynamic panel...

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Dynamic adjustment to trade shocks

Chen, Junyuan; Góes, Carlos; Muendler, Marc-Andreas; … - 2026

Global trade flows and supply chains adjust gradually. Empirical estimates of the trade elasticity for the short run are a fraction of those for the long run and suggest that trade is subject to substantive dynamic frictions. We develop a tractable framework that provides microfoundations for...

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Assessing the Welfare Impact of Tariff Liberalization for Women : Data and Analytical Framework

Porto, Guido; Winkler, Deborah - 2026

This paper presents a dataset and an analytical framework to study the welfare effects of tariff changes on women. The data is an extension of the Household Impacts of Tariffs (HIT) dataset, which contains harmonized household survey data for 54 low and lower middle-income countries. It includes...

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Trade openness, foreign direct investment and industrial growth : panel data evidence from the ASEAN region

Ṭāhir, Muḥammad; Abdullah, Adam; Albahouth, … - 2026

This paper re-examines the role of trade and FDI inflows in accelerating the process of industrial growth involving countries belonging to the "Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)" region. Trade openness and foreign direct investment (FDI) have improved the growth performance of...

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Complements or substitutes? : labor market effects of foreign inputs in developing economies

Bonilla Mejía, Leonardo; Muñoz-Morales, Juan S.; … - 2026

This paper examines how import liberalization affects labor markets when labor and intermediate inputs can act as complements or substitutes. We incorporate a constant-elasticityof-substitution (CES) production function into a dynamic quantitative trade model and show that the labor market...

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Credit reallocation and exporting : evaluating the IBC reforms in India

Nayak, Padmabati - 2026

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Completing the AfCFTA Mosaic : Liberalization of Trade in Services

Dairabayeva, Karlygash; Estrades, Carmen; Maliszewska, … - 2026

This paper uses the Services Trade Policy Database and Services Trade Restrictions Index to assess services trade liberalization in Africa, building on previous World Bank studies of the African Continental Free Trade Area. The focus is on refining reductions of non-tariff measures in services...

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Empowering women : the impact of road infrastructure and trade liberalization on gender equality : evidence from Ethiopia

Gebre, Wondatir A.; Chakraborty, Pavel - 2026

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Addressing regulatory barriers to trade in services in Latin America and the Caribbean

Blyde, Juan S. - 2026

Most barriers to trade in services stem from regulatory measures. This study assesses the degree of regulatory restrictiveness affecting trade in services across Latin America and the Caribbean and the degree of disparities in these measures. It then analyzes the impact of both the level of...

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Addressing regulatory barriers to trade in services in Latin America and the Caribbean

Blyde, Juan S. - 2026

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More trade, less diffusion : technology transfers and the dynamic effects of import liberalization

Souza, Gustavo de; Gaetani, Ruben; Mestieri, Martí - 2026

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More trade, less diffusion : technology transfers and the dynamic effects of import liberalization

Souza, Gustavo de; Gaetani, Ruben; Mestieri, Martí - 2026

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More trade, less diffusion : technology transfers and the dynamic effects of import liberalization

Souza, Gustavo de; Gaetani, Ruben; Mestieri, Martí - 2024

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How are geopolitical tensions driving a shift from liberal globalization to friendshoring?

Kuźnar, Andżelika; Menkes, Jerzy - 2026

This article examines whether the rise of friendshoring reflects a broader shift from liberal globalization toward security-driven economic realignment. It focuses on Western economies' dependence on strategic rivals (China and Russia) and asks whether recent geopolitical tensions are reshaping...

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Trade liberalization, skill demand, and workforce composition : evidence from Vietnamese SMEs

Quoc Thai Le; Pieri, Fabio; Tomasi, Chiara - 2026

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A practical guide for modeling cross-border services trade at the sector level

Ahmad, Saad; Schreiber, Samantha - 2026

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