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 …

This paper explores the combined effects of reductions in trade frictions, tariffs, and firing costs on firm dynamics … model that links trade to job flows in a new way. The fitted model captures key features of Colombian firm dynamics and …

We introduce search unemployment - la Pissarides into Melitz' (2003) model of trade with heterogeneous firms. We allow … effect of trade influences labor market outcomes. Trade liberalization lowers unemployment and raises real wages as long as … in variable trade costs or the entry of new trading countries. On the other hand, the gains from a reduction in fixed …

channels through which tariff reductions differentially affect males and females, we find that trade-induced competitive …

We study how firms and industries adjust to increasing international trade in intermediate inputs. In particular, we …

simulations to understand how trade affects economic outcomes in the presence of informality. We show that: (1) Trade openness … gains from trade are understated when the informal sector is omitted. (3) Trade openness results in large welfare gains even … welfare. (5) The effects of trade on wage inequality are reversed when the informal sector is incorporated in the analysis. (6 …