making, information aspects of competition, or the imbeddedness of firm competition in a strategic trade competition game …

product-level. We find that the most productive firms sell core varieties via foreign direct investment (FDI) and export … products with intermediate productivity. Shocks to trade costs and technology affect the endogenous decision to export or …

firm declines with the number of firms (business stealing), there is excessive entry into such oligopoly. If trade unions …Trade unions are often argued to cause allocative inefficiencies and to lower welfare. We analyze whether this … evaluation is also justified in a Cournot-oligopoly with free but costly entry. If input markets are competitive and output per …