The gradual development of establishment and firm-level micro data has lead to a large body of empirical work in industrial organization. This dissertation extends this work by incorporating firm and market heterogeneity into the empirical analysis. Using the Census of Manufactures, we construct...

CHAPTER 1: Income Distribution, Market Structure, and Individual WelfareThis essay proposes a new insight on how income distribution influences market structure and affects the economic well-being of different groups. It shows that inequality may be good for the poor via a trickle-down effect...

This dissertation consists of three chapters.Chapter 2 analyzes the reallocation of labor following a trade liberalization. Theseepisodes typically display three features: slow net absorption of labor by export-orientedsectors, large reallocation costs for displaced workers, and a...

The main objective of this research is to discuss and extend the existing literature that is concerned with the estimation of demand and supply parameters to determine unobserved prices, quantities, quality and marginal costs at the firm-level using data sets that reports only revenue and cost...