This paper explores the role of country asymmetries for trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms. Our … analysis delivers a number of novel results. First, trade policies, infrastructure policies and industrial policies which …, symmetric trade liberalization is immiserizing for a trading partner whose business conditions are inferior. Third, there are …

explores the links between countries' business conditions and international trade embedment and the default risk at the country … derive sharp predictions concerning how key factors which shape a country's business and trade environment impact on the …

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 …

trade and social-welfare-maximizing governments à la Grossman and Lai (2004), cross-border positive policy externalities … introduces three new features to the analysis: trade barriers, firm heterogeneity in terms of productivity and political economy … considerations in setting patent policies. The first two features (trade barriers interacting with firm heterogeneity) tend to reduce …

explores the links between countries' business conditions and international trade embedment and the default risk at the country … derive sharp predictions concerning how key factors which shape a country's business and trade environment impact on the …

The National Treatment clause (NT) is the first-line defense in the GATT (and in most other trade agreements) against …. Furthermore, it requires a high degree of economic sophistication on behalf of trade negotiators in order for this beneficial …

) in NT disputes. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of this burden for trade liberalization and for the …

consumers has inspired the development of a new brand of trade theory, the theory of heterogeneous firms and trade. The … framework to bring out key lessons of this recent research. We address the gains from trade, country asymmetries involving … technology potentials, market sizes, trade openness and various business conditions as well as the international repercussions …