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Lower-paid workers in Mexican firms gained as exports shifted....Read more...
Natalie Chen, Dennis Novy and Diego Solorzano
21 October 2025
Developing countries compete to attract multinationals to induce development. Becoming suppliers to multinationals could improve domestic firms' technology and managerial practices, and the host country's economy could b...Read more...
Alonso Alfaro-Urena, Isabela Manelici and Jose P Vasquez
21 November 2023
There is growing pressure on multinational enterprises to implement 'responsible sourcing' requirements for their suppliers in low- and middle-income countries. These include minimum standards on working conditions, such...Read more...
Alonso Alfaro-Urena, Benjamin Faber, Cecile Gaubert, Isabela Manelici and Jose P Vasquez
20 December 2022
Recorded at CEPR's June Paris Symposium, Tony Venables presents his research on those regional disparities in the UK which originated in the 1970s through negative trade and technology shocks and whose long run consequen...Read more...
Anthony J. Venables
5 October 2022
British households have low levels of financial resilience and are forecast a sluggish living standards recovery coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, Britain is the result of an economy defined by the low grow...Read more...
Resolution Foundation and Centre for Economic Performance
5 August 2022
India has been hit hard by the pandemic, particularly during the second wave of the virus in the spring of 2021. Swati Dhingra and Maitreesh Ghatak reveal how the largest drop in GDP in the country's history may still un...Read more...
Swati Dhingra and Maitreesh Ghatak
22 February 2022
The pandemic has led to a surge in working from home and a fall in business travel. More meetings have taken place remotely. Marcus Biermann (Universite Catholique de Louvain and Centre for Economic Performance, LSE) loo...Read more...
Marcus Biermann
8 December 2021
Creating a strong sense of reciprocity between the state and its citizens makes it more likely they will pay taxes willingly, says Timothy Besley (LSE). As we emerge from a pandemic that emphasised the importance of mutu...Read more...
Timothy Besley
1 October 2021
We show, theoretically and empirically, that the effects of technological change associated with automation and offshoring on the labor market can substantially deviate from standard neoclassical conclusions when search ...Read more...
Ester Faia, Sebastien Laffitte, Maximilian Mayer and Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano
29 May 2020
Quantifying the effects of trade policy in the age of ’global value chains’ (GVCs) requires an enhanced analytical framework that takes the observed international input-output relations in due account. However, existing ...Read more...
Rita Cappariello, Sebastian Franco-Bedoya, Vanessa Gunnella and Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano
26 March 2020
What has been happening to the US economy as a result of the Trump administration's 2018 round of import tariffs? Research by Mary Amiti, Stephen Redding and David Weinstein estimates the effects of this change in US tra...Read more...
Mary Amiti, Stephen J. Redding and David E. Weinstein
1 July 2019
Productivity has recently slowed down in many economies around the world. A crucial challenge in understanding what lies behind this 'productivity puzzle' is the still short time span for which data can be analysed. An e...Read more...
Sara Calligaris, Massimo Del Gatto, Fadi Hassan, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano and Fabiano Schivardi
1 October 2018
This study argues that there is a systematic difference in the gender wage gap (GWG) between exporting firms and non-exporters. Exporters may require greater commitment from their employees, such as working particular ho...Read more...
Esther Ann Bøler, Beata Javorcik and Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe
1 March 2018
Over the past two decades, the European Commission has negotiated a number of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) which contain both traditional elements of bilateral tariff reductions, as well as additional liberalisation meas...Read more...
Holger Breinlich, Swati Dhingra and Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano
16 March 2016
While the impact of globalization on income inequality has received a lot of attention, little is known about its effect on the gender wage gap (GWG). This study argues that there is a systematic difference in the GWG be...Read more...
16 June 2015
A recent boom in commodities-for-manufactures trade between China and other developing countries has led to much concern about the losers from rising import competition in manufacturing, but little attention on the winne...Read more...
Francisco Costa, Jason Garred and Joao Paulo Pessoa
23 May 2014
The theoretical result that there are welfare gains from trade is a central tenet of international economics. In a class of trade models that satisfy a 'gravity equation,' the welfare gains from trade can be computed usi...Read more...
Marc J. Melitz and Stephen J. Redding
14 January 2014
Following Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg (2008) we present a model in which tasks of varying complexity are matched to workers of varying skill in order to develop and test predictions regarding the effects of immigration a...Read more...
Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano, Giovanni Peri and Greg C. Wright
5 August 2013
A monopolistically competitive manufacturing sector produces goods used for final consumption and as intermediates. Intermediate usage creates cost and demand linkages between firms and a tendency for manufacturing agglo...Read more...
P Krugman and Anthony J. Venables
1 November 1995
