We show in a multi-sector, heterogeneous-firm trade model that the effect of tariffs on entry, especially in the …, and apply it to a 189-country, 15-sector version of our model, to quantify the trade, entry, and welfare effects of trade … liberalization over the period 1990–2010. We find that the impact on firm entry was larger in Advanced relative to Emerging and …

economic policies such as barriers to entry or trade liberalization. Using a multi-country model of production and trade … calibrated to the observed distribution of firm size, we show that the welfare impact of high entry costs is small. In the sample … of the largest 50 economies in the world, a reduction in entry costs all the way to the U.S. level leads to an average …

We examine entry across 113 national markets in 16 different industries using a comprehensive data set of French … completely into firm entry while about 60 percent of the variation in market size is reflected in firm entry. Looking within each …

Models dealing with cross-border acquisitions versus greenfield investment usually assume that the entry of a foreign … firm into a market has effects on the outputs of all domestic firms in that market, but exit or entry of local firms is not … versus free entry assumptions for local firms. Our finding is that greenfield entry and exporting options are more attractive …