challenge the view that greater openness to trade automatically leads to improved firm entry institutions. My model enables … calculating business entry impediments whereas lobbying game produces structural estimates of the counterfactual levels of trade … extensive margin and asymmetries in technology and trade costs. Importantly, the model demonstrates that startling differences …

firms from the home country switch from FDI to export to another foreign country (F2). The effects from trade liberalization …

We investigate the effects of demographic change and human capital accumulation on trade and productivity of domestic … trade with firm heterogeneity. Our framework leads to four testable implications: i) the export share of a country increases …

trade models with firm heterogeneity. A particularly novel finding is that high-productivity nonexporters face greater fixed …

the trade models with firm heterogeneity. A particular and novel finding is that high-productivity nonexporters face …

We expect trade liberalization to give rise to aggregate productivity gains, as the least efficient firms are forced …

We develop a model of international trade with two sources of firm heterogeneity: "productivity" and "caliber …

We develop a model of international trade with export quality requirements and two dimensions of firm heterogeneity. In …

choices in a Krugman cum Melitz and Ottaviano model of international trade. We show that the toughness of competition in a … trade adjustments: the monitoring margin and the organizational margin. International trade may or may not lead to an … increase in aggregate productivity of an industry depending on which of these margins dominate. Trade may trigger firms to opt …

This paper reviews the new approach to international trade based on firm heterogeneity in differentiated product … markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity … of exporters relative to non-exporters, within-industry reallocations of resources following trade liberalization, and …