This paper examines how trade liberalization affects the innovation incentives of firms, and what this implies for industry productivity. For...

Recent research on gains for Russia from WTO membership concludes that service trade liberalization through allowing foreign suppliers to...

We develop a political economy model to study the decision of representative democracies to join a preferential trading agreement,...

We investigate the export-enhancing effect of foreign workers at the firm level. We first develop a theoretical framework of heterogeneous...

During the recent decades, multitasking has become a more and more common phenomenon at workplaces. Rather than specializing in a job task,...

Using a firm-level dataset, this article investigates the impact of trade liberalization on employment and wages in Vietnamese manufacturing...

The international system for the governance of foreign investments is highly fragmented consisting mainly of bilateral agreements. With the...

Opportunities for well-paid employment for women are scarce in many African countries. Entrepreneurship is therefore one way in which women...

This paper analyses how China’s investments in Germany have developed over time and the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in this...

The extensive margin of bilateral trade exhibits a high level of persistence that cannot be explained by geography or trade policy. We...

We investigate the export-enhancing effect of foreign workers at the firm level. We first develop a theoretical framework of heterogeneous...

Processes of regional economic integration have been shaping the economic relations between countries significantly during the last decades....

Can South-South FDI, or investment flows between institutionally comparable partners better stimulate growth through backward linkages? When...

This paper evaluates firms’ exporting responses to BRI and considers their heterogeneity in ownership types, product types, regional origin...

We illustrate a new source of comparative advantage that is generated by countries’ different ability to adjust to technological change. Our...

We explore the export performance of Africa’s underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel, a comprehensive...

This essay discusses the economic implications of the Covid-19 pandemic, paying particular attention to the international trade dimension of...

The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of the global trade network underpinning global value chains. Initial disruptions in the...

Current global value chains are highly efficient, specialized and interconnected, but also highly vulnerable to global risks. The COVID-19...

Economic sanctions are a frequent instrument of foreign policy. In a diplomatic conflict, they aim to elicit a change in the policies of...