Tradeaccounts for an increasing portion of the U.S. economy, and the Obama administration has embraced a ramped up export strategy. But debate persists over the merits of a vigorous freetradeagenda.
One area in which we see very little impact evaluation is the realm oftraderelated interventions and reforms. In a recent paper Olivier Cadot and coauthors give us a discussion of these types of interventions and how we might...
In the economic arena, we must directly counter abusive Chinese practices in the areas oftrade, intellectual property, and currency valuation. While I am prepared to work with Chinese leaders to ensure that our countries both...
At the height of the 2008–09 financial crisis, globaltradefell by far more than global output– a pattern that defied past experience and became known as the GreatTradeCollapse. This column uses a new model for analysis...
Fortunately, we found Costco's elegantly simple mail-in electronicstrade-in program. All I had to do was type model information into Costco's recycling website. If the units had market value, I could ship them free– AND...