Outputs (3)

The Political Economy of Preferential Trade Agreements: An Empirical Investigation (2021)
Journal Article
Facchini, G., Silva, P., & Willmann, G. (2021). The Political Economy of Preferential Trade Agreements: An Empirical Investigation. Economic Journal, 131(640), 3207-3240. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueab044

We develop a political economy model to study the decision of representative democracies to join a preferential trading agreement (PTA), distinguishing between free trade areas (FTA) and customs unions (CU). Our theoretical analysis shows that bilate... Read More about The Political Economy of Preferential Trade Agreements: An Empirical Investigation.

Coercive trade policy (2019)
Journal Article
Anesi, V., & Facchini, G. (2019). Coercive trade policy. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 11(3), 225-256. https://doi.org/10.1257/mic.20170085

Coercion is used by one government (the sender") to influence the trade practices of another (the target"). We build a two-country trade model in which coercion can be exercised unilaterally or channeled through a “weak" international organization wi... Read More about Coercive trade policy.

China's "Great Migration": the impact of the reduction in trade policy uncertainty (2017)
Preprint / Working Paper
Facchini, G., Liu, M. Y., Mayda, A. M., & Zhou, M. China's "Great Migration": the impact of the reduction in trade policy uncertainty

We analyze the effect of China's integration into the world economy on workers in the country and show that one important channel of impact has been internal migration. Specifically, we study the changes in internal migration rates triggered by the r... Read More about China's "Great Migration": the impact of the reduction in trade policy uncertainty.