Perceptions of international trade barriers are important in the decision of firms to export.This study makes an …

This paper develops a quantitative, multi-country model of endogenous growth, international trade, and international … about and applying research previously conducted abroad. The effect of trade barriers on the level and dispersion of income … across countries is found to be larger than would be predicted by a static trade model, and the effect of access to …

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 …

tariffs. First, we solve a stylized 2x2 trade model of a large open economy and show that (a) productivity gains via exports … that the incentive to manipulate the terms of trade strategically vanishes, (c) the welfare gain that can be achieved via a … trade-induced productivity gains into account. The USA are the only model region that gains from European optimal tariff …

will be net exporters in scale-intensive industries. The hypotheses are empirically tested by studying the trade of each …

domestic profits for a large sample of U.S. manufacturing industries. In our model, trade barriers alter the ability of … domestic market structure to influence domestic performance. The results indicate that trade flows behave as expected in …

There are two principal theories of why countries trade: comparative advantage and increasing returns to scale. Yet … structure and trade. We use a framework that nests an increasing returns model of economic geography featuring "home market …" effects with that of Heckscher-Ohlin. We employ these trade models to account for the structure of OECD manufacturing …

During the last two decades new research has greatly advanced our understanding of the structure of world trade. This … foreign trade the discussion is in two parts. One part examines the links between factor endowments and trade flows. New … across countries. A second part examines determinants of the volume of trade, the share of intra-industry trade and evidence …