distinguish between two trade cost reductions, (i) trade liberalizations in the 1980s, which increased trade in low …-skill-intensive goods (denoted L-globalization) and (ii) reductions in communication costs due to the IT revolution, which raised trade in … middle-skill-intensive goods during the 1990s (denoted C-globalization). We consider a North–south trade economy in which the …

results are also robust to alternative measures of the degree of matching, openness, and the trade status of an industry. …

I provide novel evidence for the impact of trade policy uncertainty on exporters. In a dynamic, heterogeneous firms … model, trade policy uncertainty will delay the entry of exporters into new markets and make them less responsive to applied … tariff reductions. Policy instruments that reduce or eliminate uncertainty, such as binding trade policy commitments at the …

This paper revisits Trefler and Zhu's (2005, 2010) (TZ) empirical examination of the factor content of trade in the … presence of international differences in production techniques and trade in inputs. In this framework, knowing the bilateral … details of each country's input–output structure is key to the correct calculation of the factor content of trade. Because …

This paper estimates a heterogeneous firms trade model using sector level data on export participation, trade flows … accounts for nearly half of variation in bilateral trade. …

matching employer–employee data with trade data at the firm level we show that the export experience acquired by managers in …