We distill the main insights from recent trade models on firms' responses toglobalization. Our primary aim is to assess the economic impact and the welfareimplications of the resulting reallocation of resources across frims and countries. In sodoing, we bring theory into life through the...

We develop a model of commodity tax competition with monopolistically competitive internationally mobile firms, transport costs, and asymmetric country sizes. We investigate the impacts of non-cooperative tax setting, as well as of tax harmonization and changes in the tax principle, in both the...