If you're an exporter, it pays to be a know-it-all these days.Does there appear to be even a slight potential that the item you're shipping could play any part at all in modern weaponry? then you need to know exactly how that item will or may be used. You also may need to know who will...

This dissertation investigates the relationship between industrial and trade policies and their impact on firm-level incentives to become more productive. In Chapter two we use a two-sector growth model and show that the impact of a rise in competition in the intermediate goods sector (that...

En los últimos años, las exportaciones españolas han aumentado significativamente, en un contexto de ampliación de la base de empresas exportadoras españolas, liderada por las PYMes, aunque las ventas al exterior están concentradas en una pequeña fracción de exportadores grandes y...

First chapter aims to quantify the role of trade in capital goods incross country income differences. I construct a multi-country general equilibriummodel of trade along the line of Eaton and Kortum (2002) and Alvarezand Lucas (2007) and introduce trade in capital goods and capital...

This dissertation consists of three essays in International Trade. The first essay studies the impact of changing tariffs on the range of goods countries export to the United States. The empirical analysis shows that tariffs tend to have a statistically significant but small impact: at best 5...