In this paper, we seek to understand why the “wage premium”, the percentage by which wages earned by skilled workers exceed those of unskilled workers, varies among industries featuring different market competitiveness. We construct a theoretical model with CES utility function and constant...

We analyze a fi rm's joint decision to export and invest using a model that incorporates the essential features of self-selection and learning-by-exporting theories of fi rm-level dynamics. We calibrate the model to 2002-07 Chilean manufacturing plant data and simulate it under different...

We explore how public investment in commercial infrastructure affects the composition of trade between countries. To this end, we develop a model of bilateral trade in which two countries produce, consume, and trade a continuum of goods. Goods are produced by a single homogeneous factor, labor,...

This paper examines how intermittent trade conflicts affect production, investment, and exports of an industry that produces for both domestic and international markets. We construct a dynamic stochastic model of a representative profit maximizing firm that is exposed to intermittent trade...