account for. In particular, consistent with the empirical evidence we find that trade liberalization leads to a higher exit … do not export. We also find that trade iberalization promotes economic growth and that it has the opposite effect of …

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 …

centralised and decentralised bargaining involves a potential trade-off between product variety and product prices …

We introduce unemployment and endogenous selection of workers into different skill-classes in a trade model with two … effects of trade liberalization. We show that the gains from trade will be distributed very unequally. While unskilled workers … when a skill-abundant country opens up to trade …

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms … by trade costs and country size: smaller and/or more centrally located nations suffer less from inefficient policies at …

penetrate export markets- and “High-Commitment Exporters” –who are ready to make additional trade-related investments in order …

challenge the view that greater openness to trade automatically leads to improved firm entry institutions. My model enables … calculating business entry impediments whereas lobbying game produces structural estimates of the counterfactual levels of trade … extensive margin and asymmetries in technology and trade costs. Importantly, the model demonstrates that startling differences …

exemplify possible applications related to trade and FDI. By overcoming several data limitations, our new global index can help …