on the volume of intermediate goods trade and the number of varieties produced are mutually reinforcing, resulting in a …

trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers. Wage inequality across and within firms results from their different … features obtained from German linked employer-employee data, we investigate how falling trade costs and institutional reforms … interact in shaping labor market outcomes. Focusing on the period 1996-2007, we find that neither trade nor key features of the …

international trade, self-enforcing - or stable - IEAs may comprise up to 60% of all countries (Eichner and Pethig 2013). But these … coalitions are Stackelberg leaders and set tariffs in addition to their cap-and-trade schemes. Surprisingly, these smaller IEAs …

We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade (openness) on interregional inequality within … on weighted trade shares and trade costs. In addition to the standard trade-to-GDP ratio, we derive and propose an … aggregate freeness-of-trade measure based on phiness of trade. Both measures are instrumented by proxies constructed from …

We develop a heterogeneous-firms model with trade in goods, labor mobility and credit constraints due to moral hazard … trade liberalization. While the former leads to more dispersion of economic activity across space, the latter tends to drive …