market access program for the least developed sub-Saharan African countries has helped these countries gain competitive edge … over other exporters into the Chinese market. While there is evidence of decreased export bundle concentration and movement …

North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all industries, an overwhelming share of aggregate productivity growth is … implies that trade liberalization provided growth opportunity to larger and more productive plants irrespective of their …

technology potentials, market sizes, trade openness and various business conditions as well as the international repercussions … consumers has inspired the development of a new brand of trade theory, the theory of heterogeneous firms and trade. The … framework to bring out key lessons of this recent research. We address the gains from trade, country asymmetries involving …

Even if free trade creates net welfare gains for a country as a whole, the associated distributional implications can … undermine the political viability of free trade. We show that trade-related redistribution increases the political viability of … free trade in the US. We do so by assessing the causal effect of expected redistribution associated with the US Trade …

dynamic viewpoint by examining the impact of trade with Japan, North America and the EU on technology diffusion and TFP in … regional: Korea (Mexico) (Poland) benefits mainly from trade with Japan (North America) (the EU); and ii) the dynamic version …

-entry convex costs of adjusting their exporting activity and, as a result, a significant share of the productivity gains from trade …

countries. These costs are heavily influenced by economic policy. What is not well understood is how international trade affects … to more but to better firms in the market. In the open economy there is another, strategic motive for entry subsidies as … the tightening of domestic market selection also affects exporting decisions for domestic and foreign firms. Our analysis …

, especially an accelerated shift from agriculture and manufacturing to trade and other services, but also greater labor market …While there is a large literature analyzing the distributional impacts of trade reforms across the income or skill … distribution, very little is known about the gender effects of trade reforms. This paper seeks to fill this gap and investigates …

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and … higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son … mechanisms suggests that the labor market returns for low-status women (relative to men) and high-status men (relative to women …