specialization and trade: products where timely delivery is important will be produced near the source of final demand, where wages …

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 …

We investigate theoretically and empirically the competitive effects of increased trade on prices, productivity and … bias of monetary policy. Our results suggest that increased trade could account for as much as a quarter of European …

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 …

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