This paper uses the quantitative spatial model with heterogeneous locations linked by costly goods trade, migration and …

We introduce a simple oligopolistic trade model with international transportation costs, and analyze the profitability … trade freeness, (ii) the possibility of rent appropriation on world markets, and (iii) direct quot;synergyquot; effects of …

trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers. Wage inequality across and within firms results from their different … features obtained from German linked employer-employee data, we investigate how falling trade costs and institutional reforms … interact in shaping labor market outcomes. Focusing on the period 1996-2007, we find that neither trade nor key features of the …

This paper explores the quantitative consequences of transatlantic trade liberalization envisioned in a Transatlantic … Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union. Our key innovation is to develop a … new quantitative spatial trade model and to use an associated technique which is extraordinarily parsimonious and tightly …

. (3) It links these findings to the recent literature from the new trade theory on international activities of …