will be net exporters in scale-intensive industries. The hypotheses are empirically tested by studying the trade of each …

We investigate theoretically and empirically the competitive effects of increased trade on prices, productivity and … bias of monetary policy. Our results suggest that increased trade could account for as much as a quarter of European …

During the last two decades new research has greatly advanced our understanding of the structure of world trade. This … foreign trade the discussion is in two parts. One part examines the links between factor endowments and trade flows. New … across countries. A second part examines determinants of the volume of trade, the share of intra-industry trade and evidence …

We present a North-South model of international trade in which differentiated products are developed in the North … relative prevalence of these organizational forms. The analysis sheds light on the structure of foreign trade within and across …

This paper estimates the effects of trade liberalization on plant productivity. In contrast to previous studies, we …

choices in a Krugman cum Melitz and Ottaviano model of international trade. We show that the toughness of competition in a … trade adjustments: the monitoring margin and the organizational margin. International trade may or may not lead to an … increase in aggregate productivity of an industry depending on which of these margins dominate. Trade may trigger firms to opt …