When national competitiveness is invoked as a policy objective, trade experts have learned to retort that countries don …'t trade, firms do. This focus on the importance of the firm in international trade is consistent with the most recent … developments in trade theory, but policy needs to catch up. Recognizing the growing anomalies in observed trade patterns relative …

When national competitiveness is invoked as a policy objective, trade experts have learned to retort that countries don …'t trade, firms do. This focus on the importance of the firm in international trade is consistent with the most recent … developments in trade theory, but policy needs to catch up. Recognizing the growing anomalies in observed trade patterns relative …

diversity of existing capabilities, the greater the number of possible recombinations. Trade between progressively larger sets … driven system. Based on this understanding, the note draws inferences for trade policy …

This paper explores the implications of recent developments in firm-based trade theory and empirics for trade policy … and negotiations. While traditional trade theory focused on the country, and the new trade theory of the 1980’s adopted … international trade. We describe insights from this reformulation of theory and the empirical literature that illuminates it. The …

When national competitiveness is invoked as a policy objective, trade experts have learned to retort that countries don …`t trade, firms do. This focus on the importance of the firm in international trade is consistent with the most recent … developments in trade theory, but policy needs to catch up. Recognizing the growing anomalies in observed trade patterns relative …

We examine the setting of national competition policy in a two-country setting,emphasizing the relationship of trade to … equilibrium distributional effects of competition policy, therelationship of national competition policy to terms-of-trade gains … and losses,the implications of distinct national markets linked through trade (thestarting point for all trade theorists …