constrained, however, and related to the level of trade integration in a bell-shaped way. …This paper sets up a two country monopolistic competition model with intra-industry trade to study the effects of an … traditional one with physical capital, such a differential induces a relocation effect which increases with the level of trade …

The paper analyzes the network structure of international trade. Adapting a network approach developed in the physical … sciences, we propose that international trade functions like a scale-free network. For each commodity group we calculate a … model to explore the effect of the network structure on the value of bilateral trade. The estimation suggests that, inter …

The paper explores theoretically and empirically why trade intermediaries (TIs) are frequently used as agents for … exports to some countries but not to others. We adapt a standard intra-industry trade model with variable export costs (e …