Trade Globalization and Political Liberalization: A Gravity Approach

Trade Liberalization in the Americas: Are Regionalism and Globalization Compatible?

Food Safety and Trade Liberalization in an Age of Globalization

Food Safety and Trade Liberalization in an Age of Globalization C trust of food producers and the governments that regulate them is in notable decline throughout the world, due to frequent and recurring instances of food contamination. Yet consumer trust is pivotal in order to sustain the increasingly globalized nature of food production, processing, and distribution in the international tradin...

Trade, globalization and uneven development: Entanglements of geographical political economy

Mainstream geographical economics propagates the free trade doctrine, presenting capitalism as entailing, but capable of overcoming, uneven geographical development. Geographers have failed to engage with the international trade theories that rationalize this, or develop alternatives. Beginning with the entanglements through which trade happens, I examine how theories rationalizing the free tra...

Trade Liberalization and Welfare Inequality: a Demand-Based Approach

There is strong evidence suggesting that di¤erent income groups consume di¤erent bundles of goods. Hence, trade liberalization can a¤ect welfare inequality via changes in the relative prices of goods consumed by di¤erent income groups (the price e¤ect). In this paper, I develop a framework that enables us to explore the role of the price e¤ect in determining welfare inequality. I …nd that trade...

Trade Liberalization and Employment

This paper reviews both multi-country and country studies on the impact of trade liberalization on growth and employment in developing countries. These studies reveal sharply contrasting effects of trade liberalization on employment, suggesting that country-specifi c and contingent factors are important. In particular, differences in how trade liberalization is implemented are particularly impo...