with high scale elasticities typically display a non-monotonous relationship between trade liberalisation and concentration …, with maximal concentration for intermediate trade costs. Other industries, more driven by comparative advantage, become … more and more concentrated as trade costs are lowered. On the aggregate European level we find an (inverse) U …

the demand side (buyers) in international trade using a novel transaction-level dataset from Norway. Domestic exporters as … sellers and buyers and the variation of buyer dispersion across destinations. The paper develops a model of trade with … explaining trade patterns. …

productivity. We do so by developing a quantitative model with heterogeneous firms and international trade where firms can invest … Norwegian firm-level data on R&D and trade in intermediates, we structurally estimate the model and find that both imports and R … can explain most of the observed increase in trade in intermediates as more firms started to innovate, underscoring the …

appreciation of the Norwegian Krone in the early 2000s on Norwegian manufacturing firms which differ substantially in their trade …

The rising importance of multinationals in the world economy has been accompanied by a rise in trade between affiliates … of multinationals located in different countries, and by profits being shifted to low tax countries. The effect of trade … barriers on taxation, intra firm trade and profit shifting has largely been ignored by both the trade literature and the public …

We develop a model where trade liberalization leads to skill-biased technological change, which in turn raises the … trade, technology and relative returns to skilled and unskilled labour. Moreover, we show that as market integration … continues and trade costs fall below a certain threshold, the relative return to skilled labour may fall. …

equilibrium model of trade and offshoring. This reveals that globalization and offshoring have two opposing effects on relative … falling trade costs for goods. However, we also find that if the globalization process continues as a result of reduced costs …