Trade Liberalization and the Modern Metropolis

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...

Trade Liberalization and Financial Leverage

This paper argues that trade liberalization has a potentially significant impact on financial leverage. We compare the predictions of the trade-off model of capital structure with the pecking order model. In the first case, we suggest that trade liberalization affects the trade-off between the tax advantages of debt and expected bankruptcy costs. This implies that a reduction in domestic tariff...

Trade Liberalization and Income Distribution

Empirical work relating trade liberalization and income distribution has identified an important anomaly. The Stolper-Samuelson theorem predicts that trade liberalization will shift income toward a country’s abundant factor. For developing countries, this suggests liberalization will principally benefit the abundant unskilled labor. Yet extensive empirical studies have identified many cases wit...

Trade liberalization and cartel stability *

Manuscript No: #8529, Acceptance date: November 30, 1999 Trade liberalization and cartel stability* Kjell Erik Lommerud Lars Sørgard RRH: TRADE LIBERALIZATION AND CARTEL STABILITY LRH: Kjell Erik Lommerud and Lars Sørgard Abstract Can reduced trade barriers promote a collusive understanding about not exporting into each others domestic markets? Reduced trade costs increase the short-run gains f...

Preferential Trade Liberalization: