The global process of strengthening and harmonization of intellectual property rights (IPRs) systems has been intensified in the last twenty five years by the signing of trade agreements (TAs) that include chapters ...

In this paper, we analyze the effects of economic integration agreements on trade survival, initial volumes of trade, and export growth. We focus on annual trade data at the 5-digit SITC level for Latin America exports to ...

Using a dataset of 103 countries over the 1960-2011 period, we examine the relationship between the real effective exchange rate (REER), on the one hand, and trade openness, trade balance, the terms of trade, and factor ...

Using large panel data models that deal with the problems of potential endogeneity and cross-sectional dependence, while also allowing for cross-country heterogeneity in the parameters of interest, we demonstrate that ...

The global process of strengthening and harmonization of intellectual property rights (IPRs) systems has been intensified in the last twenty five years by the signing of trade agreements (TAs) that include chapters with ...

Introduction The evolution of trade and investment flows between the Caribbean and the rest of the western hemisphere has been influenced by historical incorporation into the world economy and changes over time. The most ...

In a previous work, Besedes et al. (2015) studied the effects of trade agreements on the survival of trade relationships. Their main results were that trade agreements significantly increase the survival of trade relationships ...

In the so-called ‘Ricardian’ trade models, exclusion from trade is impossible because a country can always compensate its technological backwardness with low wages. This result is ensured in these models due to the very ...

In this paper we evaluate the poverty and distributional effects of fiscal spending and trade policies within a simultaneous framework. We provide the first systematic analysis testing for the existence of complementarities ...