culture, and quality upgrading costs, associated to market similarities in income level, are found to be significant. Finally …

contrast, standard policy instruments such as a minimum quality standard or the use of greener technologies leads to a better …

the impact of globalization on markups and pricing, concentration, and productivity. The model nests two workhorse trade … models, the Brander & Krugman reciprocal dumping model and the Ricardian technology-based trade model, as special cases. We … of zero trade flows and the pattern of export prices, and on cross-country and industry variations in industrial …

market size and economic integration on the allocation of industrial activity. For high levels of trade costs firms locate in … different regions. Lowering the trade costs beyond a critical level triggers an agglomeration of industry in the larger region …. This process of agglomeration is gradual in nature and trade costs have to be successively lowered for a full …

The Bagwell and Staiger (1990) theory of cooperative trade agreements predicts new tariffs (i) increase with imports …

(long-lasting) antidumping measure will be imposed by a factor of five (seven). In finding that US trade policy is applied … counter-cyclically to foreign economic fluctuations, the paper suggests that trade policy may reduce the extent of business …

We examine an issue at the nexus of domestic competition policy and international trade, the interaction between goods … trade and market power in domestic trade and distribution sectors. Theory suggests a set of linkages between service …-sector competition and goods trade supported by econometrics involving imports of 22 OECD countries vis-´a-vis 69 exporters. Competition …

-way trade and horizontal multinational activities. We present a model with three factors of production to disentangle the … twofold importance of headquarters for their affiliates into a know-how and a capital serving part (FDI). Multinationals trade … derive predictions about the impact of trade costs, plant set-up costs, relative country size and factor endowments on the …