The big picture issue this paper intends to address is on the incentive aspects of a multilateral trade liberalization. The paper builds on a framework originally introduced in Grossman and Helpman’s The Politics of ...

This paper estimates the welfare effects of Brexit, focusing on trade and fiscal transfers. We use a standard quantitative general equilibrium trade model with many countries and sectors and trade in intermediates, as in ...

This paper proposes a tool to detect statistical arbitrage opportunities in a particular pair of stocks in the Brazilian market. The technique is based on the construction of a synthetic asset that presents mean reversion ...

Introduction Trade and development issues have been the focus of economists, policy makers and international organizations for decades. However, environmental concerns have only come to the fore within the last couple ...

Due to the rapid and effective success of countries in the Pacific Rim for the last two decades, current world trade attention has been focussed on what appears to be the common vision of the ‘Pacific Century’. Reducing ...

Day trading, a high trading frequency mode of operating in the financial markets, is becoming more popular in Brazil and in the world. Many explanations have been given to try to clarify the motives that make investors and ...

Sampson and John Van Reenen?> This paper estimates the welfare effects of Brexit in the medium to long run, focusing on trade and fiscal transfers. We use a standard quantitative general equilibrium trade model with many ...