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 …

By using two alternative intra-industry trade models (1. - New goods cannot be introduced into the economy; 2. - The … obtained by using an imperfect competitive model, which embodies a sector bias technological change that arises from trade. In … addition, the gains from trade, insignificant under the standard trade hypotheses, are extraordinarily large when endogenous …

. In choosing between these alternatives, they face a trade-off between higher variable distance costs when exporting and …

firm will export or import. Foreign ownership has a large positive impact on the likelihood to engage in direct trade but a … negative effect on the likelihood to trade through intermediaries; the effects vary across upper and lower middle income …

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 …

We merge German balance-of-payments and foreign-affiliate-trade statistics to obtain data about trade in commercial …

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 …

I present a model of international trade and foreign direct investment (FDI), where FDI is comprised of greenfield FDI …