parameters and use the model to generate predictions on the effects that various policies have on the human capital distributions in the host and in the source countries.

This paper contrasts the properties of dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin models with overlapping generations with those of models with infinitely lived consumers. In both environments, if capital is mobile across countries, factor price equalization occurs after the initial period. In general, however,...

depends greatly on whether domestic policy is observable or unobservable.

Theories in which firms have heterogeneous productivities, such as those of Melitz (2003) and Chaney (2008), have been successful in capturing this empirical regularity that the average exporting firm is larger than the average nonexporter, but they fail to capture the richness of the...