Does trade reform promote economic growth? A review of recent evidence

DA Irwin - The World Bank Research Observer, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Do trade reforms that significantly reduce import barriers lead to faster economic growth? In
the twenty-five years since Rodríguez and Rodrik's (2000) critical survey of empirical work …

[PDF][PDF] Financial frictions and international trade: A review

D Kohn, F Leibovici, M Szkup - … of Economics and …, 2022 - fernandoleibovici.github.io
This paper reviews recent studies on the impact of financial frictions on international trade.
We first present evidence on the relation between measures of access to external finance …

Financial development and international trade

F Leibovici - Journal of Political Economy, 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper studies the industry-level and aggregate implications of financial development on
international trade. I set up a multi-industry general equilibrium model of international trade …

Financial frictions and export dynamics in large devaluations

D Kohn, F Leibovici, M Szkup - Journal of International Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
We study the role of financial frictions and balance-sheet effects in accounting for the
dynamics of aggregate exports in large devaluations. We investigate a small open economy …

[HTML][HTML] Why do exports react less to real exchange rate depreciations than to appreciations? Evidence from Pakistan

M Brun, JP Gambetta, GJ Varela - Journal of Asian Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
We examine if and why export responses to real exchange depreciations are lower than
those to appreciations. We document this asymmetric response using macro-level data for …

Evaluating the impact of export finance support on firm-level export performance: Evidence from Pakistan

F Defever, A Riano, G Varela - 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper evaluates the impact of two export finance support schemes: The Export Finance
Scheme (EFS) and the Long-Term Finance Facility for Plant & Machinery (LTFF) on firm …

On the distributional effects of international tariffs

D Carroll, S Hur - International Economic Review, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We provide a quantitative analysis of the distributional effects of the 2018 increase in tariffs
by the United States and its major trading partners. We build a trade model with incomplete …

[PDF][PDF] Exporters, Credit Constraints, and Misallocation

J Finlay - 2021 - johnfinlay.me
Exporters are typically large and productive firms, and many policies implicitly or explicitly
encourage them to expand. In this paper I combine a natural experiment and a dynamic …

Trade integration, industry reallocation, and welfare in Colombia

We study empirically and theoretically the dynamic effects of the unilateral reduction in
import tariffs undertaken by Colombia from 1989-1993, with a particular emphasis on the …

Encouraging wealth creation in children from poor families: a novel life skills approach

GE Molope, SM Seeletse, W Ladzani - International Journal of …, 2023 - ssbfnet.com
The article aims to promote financial literacy among youngsters from low-income
backgrounds, encouraging them to engage in cost-effective investments that will enable …