trade, and the relative price of manufacturing goods. More than 70% of the variation in per capita income can be explained …

This paper examines the factors that give rise to intermediaries in exporting and explores the implications for trade … underlying differences between direct and intermediary exporters have important consequences for trade flows. The ability of …

potential explanation for these puzzles by nesting the above theories in a multi-location model with trade costs. Using a number …

This paper reviews the empirical evidence on firm heterogeneity in international trade. A first wave of empirical … findings from micro data on plants and firms proposed challenges for existing models of inter- national trade and inspired the … multi-product firms, offshoring, intra-firm trade and firm export market dynamics. …

reactions to the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement of 1989 (CUSFTA). Using the uncertainty surrounding the agreement …

This paper reviews the new approach to international trade based on firm heterogeneity in differentiated product … markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity … of exporters relative to non-exporters, within-industry reallocations of resources following trade liberalization, and …

A variety of empirical and theoretical trade papers have suggested and documented a positive impact of trade on the … productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access … competition from abroad. The latter finding is at odds with most trade models, so I propose a model incorporating non …