“...We present a model of trade and search-induced unemployment, where trade results from Heckscher–Ohlin (H-O) and/or Ricardian comparative advantage. Using...”

“...We present a theoretical model (adapted from the structural gravity model by Anderson and van Wincoop, American Economic Review, 93, 2003, 170) to capture the...”

“...This paper provides a theory of lobby formation within a framework in which trade policy is determined through political contributions. Under certain...”

“...Using industry-level data disaggregated by states, this paper finds a positive impact of trade liberalization on (the absolute values of) labor demand...”

“...The topics in this issue include the political economy of economic reforms, privatization and labor, structural change and growth, democracy and policy...”

“...The Political Economy of Trade Policy: Theory, Evidence and Applications is a collection of sole-authored and co-authored papers by Devashish Mitra that have...”

“...We create alternative measures of political instability, which capture only movements from dictatorship to democracy and vice versa and, unlike older,...”

“...We exploit exogenous variation in tariffs to examine the impact of import competition on unionization and union wages in a developing country. Using a...”

“...This paper finds that the evidence for the home market effect (HME) found by Hanson and Xiang (AER, 2004) is sensitive to the way the dependent and the...”

“...We construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to the presence of externalities, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can...”