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 …

. Herein, the strategic use of BTAX (the manipulation of the terms of trade) is stronger for all coalition regions than the … other energy exporters would oppose it, while the Low-Income Countries would not because of benefits from the trade …

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 …