We investigate how differences in set-up costs of various types affect the trade-off between global efficiency and …

and trade integration policies on the endogenous wage gap across regions, the length of the quality-life cycle and long …-regional inequality level. We also find that trade integration boosts long run growth but increases the North-South wage gap. …-industrial trade. More precisely, we build a model featuring non-homothetic preferences and income differences, and show that such …

In this paper we compare static and dynamic features of trade in goods and trade in services at the micro level. By … analyze static features of trade such as participation rates, firms characteristics, heterogeneity, concentration and trade … static perspective, our results reveal that there are limited qualitative differences between trade in goods and trade in …

The paper aims at reconciling theoretical models of endogenous growth with the empirical evidence on trade and growth …. In particular, we show that the conventional wisdom according to which trade is growth-impairing for a country with …