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Estimating Trade Flows : Trading Partners and Trading Volumes

Helpman, Elhanan - 2007

We develop a simple model of international trade with heterogeneous firms that is consistent with a number of stylized features of the data. In particular, the model predicts positive as well as zero trade flows across pairs of countries, and it allows the number of exporting firms to vary...

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Growth, Trade, and Inequality

Grossman, Gene M. - 2014

We introduce firm and worker heterogeneity into a model of innovation-driven endogenous growth. Individuals who differ in ability sort into either a research sector or a manufacturing sector that produces differentiated goods. Each research project generates a new variety of the differentiated...

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Globalization and Wage Inequality

Helpman, Elhanan - 2016

Globalization has been blamed for rising inequality in rich and poor countries. Yet the views of many protagonists in … empirical literature on the relationship between globalization and wage inequality. While the initial analysis that started in … cumulative effect has been modest, and that globalization does not explain the preponderance of the rise in wage inequality …

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Trade Wars and Trade Talks

Grossman, Gene M. - 1993

Whether governments clash in trade disputes or negotiate over trade agreements, their actions in the international arena reflect political conditions back home. Previous studies of cooperative and noncooperative trade relations have focused on governments that are immune from political pressures...

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Trade, FDI, and the Organization of Firms

Helpman, Elhanan - 2006

New developments in the world economy have triggered research designed to better understand the changes in trade and … transformation of the world economy. This paper reviews the literature that has emerged from these efforts. The theoretical …

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Trade and Inequality : From Theory to Estimation

Helpman, Elhanan - 2012

While neoclassical theory emphasizes the impact of trade on wage inequality between occupations and sectors, more recent theories of firm heterogeneity point to the impact of trade on wage dispersion within occupations and sectors. Using linked employer-employee data for Brazil, we show that...

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Trade and Labor Market Outcomes

Helpman, Elhanan - 2011

This paper reviews a new framework for analyzing the interrelationship between inequality, unemployment, labor market frictions, and foreign trade. This framework emphasizes firm heterogeneity and search and matching frictions in labor markets. It implies that the opening of trade may raise...

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Income Distribution, Product Quality, and International Trade

Fajgelbaum, Pablo D. - 2009

We develop a framework for studying trade in vertically and horizontally differentiated products. In our model, consumers with heterogeneous incomes and tastes purchase a homogeneous good as well as making a discrete choice of quality and variety of a differentiated product. The distribution of...

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Labor Market Rigidities, Trade and Unemployment

Helpman, Elhanan - 2007

We study a two-country two-sector model of international trade in which one sector produces homogeneous products while the other produces differentiated products. The differentiated-product industry has firm heterogeneity, monopolistic competition, search and matching in its labor market, and...

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Global Sourcing

Antràs, Pol - 2003

We present a North South model of international trade in which differentiated products are developed in the North. Sectors are populated by final-good producers who differ in productivity levels. Based on productivity and sectoral characteristics, firms decide whether to integrate into the...

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