globalization affects the size distribution of firms and the patterns of consumption and trade in the global economy …

--country distribution of output--per--worker. In particular examine whether the opening up of trade in a Hecksher--Ohlin type model of trade … a holdup problem, then the opening up of trade can cause an increase in the dispersion of income across countries …

trade restriction pretty much everywhere. Some concessions to the losers were also manifested by a race towards the top … concludes with four lessons of history and an agenda for international economists, including more attention to the impact of …

for technology diffusion, how this changed over time, and whether international trade, foreign direct investment, and … spillovers favor convergence, while a geographically limited scope of knowledge diffusion can lead to regional clusters of … from the early 1970s to the 1990s. Third, I estimate that trade patterns account for the majority of all differences in …

specialization of countries within GVCs in a world with barriers to international trade. With costly trade, the optimal location of … trade costs affect the extent to which various countries participate in domestic, regional or global value chains, and …