We develop and structurally estimate a trade model in order to identify the importance of consumer taste. The model …

relationship between the margins of trade and firm productivity, both across firms and within firms over time. In addition, we … employ proxies for trade costs to quantify the extensive and intensive margin adjustments of trade. Linking production and … produced by the firm, so-called Carry-Along Trade (CAT). CAT exports are concentrated in the largest and most productive firms …

The recent availability of trade data at a firm-product-country level calls for a new generation of models able to …

determining the effect of trade liberalisation on resource reallocation, using Belgian manufacturing firm- and firm … degrees of comparative advantage. We then examine the impact of opening up trade with low-wage countries on both inter- and … industries. Our results indicate that, within more closely integrated sectors, trade liberalisation with low-wage countries leads …

We present, extend and estimate a model of international trade with firm heterogeneity in the tradition of Melitz (2003 … prices, productivity levels and markups as functions of openness to trade at a sectoral level. The theory lends itself … naturally to a difference in differences estimation, with international differences in trade openness at the sector level …

and for Cyprus and Malta as they are Commonwealth countries. When only the trade channel of Brexit is estimated, GDP (or … with higher non-tariff trade barriers. Results are sensitive to some parameters such as the reaction of trade volumes to … changes in tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers (trade elasticities). Reaching a Free Trade Agreement could limit the GDP …

We develop a new general equilibrium model of trade with heterogeneous firms, variable demand elasticities and … endogenously determined wages. Trade integration favours wage convergence, boosts competition, and forces the least efficient firms … model is well suited to studying the impact of trade integration on aggregate productivity and factor prices. Using Canada …

We study the role of contract enforcement in shaping the dynamics of international trade at the firm level. We develop … significantly affect firms’ trade volumes and have manifold implications for firms’ dynamic patterns in foreign markets. …