This paper focuses on self-selection into trade by exporting and importing firms, and on the presence of differential … heterogeneity and the connection between firm-level performance and international trade. They provide evidence on the remarkable …

, namely on increasing international trade flows, and will review the evidence on the effect of trade on inequality. Second …

Fears of rising wage inequality and job loss loom large in current debates on free trade. Surprisingly, however, there … exists little academic research on how to compensate those who lose from free trade. This policy paper reviews the existing … theoretical literature on trade and compensation, and derives guidelines on how to design compensation schemes in practice. The …

trade liberalization on wage inequality. In the context of a dynamic trade model with costly labour mobility (Lechthaler and … Mileva, 2013), we show that the effect of trade liberalization on wage inequality depends on i) the time horizon considered …, ii) the degree of worker mobility, and iii) the degree of trade liberalization (partial/full). In the short-run, observed …

This paper develops an efficiency theory of contingent trade policies. We model the competition for a domestic market … distributions are asymmetric because the foreign firm incurs a trade cost to serve the domestic market. We show that the foreign …, justifying the use of contingent trade policy on efficiency grounds. Despite an environment of asymmetric information, contingent …

This paper explores the role of pooled-producer, e.g. private label, trade intermediation in shaping the range and … diversity of exports. Direct sales maintain a firm's unique product characteristics (`brand equity'), whereas trade through an … trade variety for volume, firms face greater competition from the new pooled-products, and intermediaries capture much of …

We develop a new model of trade in which educational institutions drive comparative advantage and determine the … support of human capital choices to demonstrate that freer trade can induce crowding out of the middle occupations towards the … gains from trade may be non-monotonic in workers' ability, and middle ability agents can lose the most from trade …