productivity with a shape parameter that depends on industry-level characteristics. A novel result is that export opportunities, by …, namely, that export opportunities increase firm heterogeneity by fostering innovation …

evaluate how the increased openness caused by China's accession to the WTO effects the importing and exporting sectors. We find …We examine the gains from Chinese accession to the WTO. Using Arkolakis, Costinot, and Rodríguez-Clare (2012) we … provide a new quantitative welfare measure by dividing the manufacturing sector into import and export sub-sectors. We then …

Vietnamese firms to the 2007 WTO accession. Our result show that WTO accession is associated with higher probability of exit …

the “coherence gap” in global governance. This paper examines the contribution that the WTO can make in its three areas of … argument that could be made for the use of WTO-triggered trade actions to enforce cooperative behaviour towards rebalancing …

This paper characterizes the dynamic empirical properties of country export capabilities in order to inform modelling … has noted a tendency for countries to concentrate exports in a few sectors. We show that this concentration arises from a … heavy-tailed distribution of industry export capabilities that is approximately log normal and whose shape is stable across …

between wages and profits, and for production and trade patterns in a two-country world …

export revenue. We test our hypotheses using Chinese firm-level data for the years after China's accession to WTO in 2001 … trade liberalization experience of China following its accession to the WTO in 2001. We build a multi-sector heterogenous … impacts include changes in the probability of entry into the export market, the fraction of firms that export and the share of …

Natural resources account for 20% of world trade, and dominate the exports of many countries. Policy is used to … manipulate both international and domestic prices of resources, yet this policy is largely outside the disciplines of the WTO …. The instruments used include export taxes, price controls, production quotas, and domestic producer and consumer taxes …

replicates the increase in the DVA ratio, driven by the export-processing zones. Furthermore, our results imply that China's WTO …-sector gravity model with inter-sectoral linkages. We calibrate the model and perform a counterfactual analysis of China's WTO …-12% of the decrease in the world DVA ratio as observed between 2000-2007. For China, the counterfactual experiment robustly …