Information spillovers from multinational enterprises to local firms in developing countries
are examined in the literature on global value chains and foreign direct investment …

The debate over trade's role in growth and inequality in recent years seems to center on the
question of whether the gains from trade are worth the disruption from necessary …

Abstract The China-ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Free Trade Agreement
(CAFTA) has been recognized as a significant progress in regional economic integration for …

In a stylized model, firms differentiate their products to escape import com-petition. Facing a
nested CES demand, each firm chooses between a nest with competitors and its own nest …

This study analyzes the impacts of further tariff reductions resulting from the proliferation of
regional trade agreements on wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers in …

The impact of trade on environmental performance has recently become a hot topic.
However, little is known about whether import trade affects the energy use of developing …

Purpose The purpose of this research is to systematically scrutinize the influence of
macroeconomic determinants on trade openness, through the lens of various trade theories …

Recent theoretical contributions provide conflicting predictions about the effects of product
market competition on firms' organizational choices. This paper uses a rich firm-product …

In this study, we analyze the impact of the lower Chinese tariffs on Pakistani textile
manufacturers that resulted from the Pakistan-China Free Trade Agreement (FTA). As a …

We develop a novel methodology for disentangling the demand and cost drivers of firm
heterogeneity when firms sort themselves into different markets, and we apply it to export …