We develop a general equilibrium model of trade with multiple countries and industries in the spirit of Eaton and Kortum (2002) and Bernard, Eaton, Jensen, and Kortum (2003). We structurally estimate the parameters of the model and calibrate it to data on 33 OECD countries and one country that...

We develop a general equilibrium model of trade with multiple countries and industries in the spirit of Eaton and Kortum (2002) and Bernard, Eaton, Jensen, and Kortum (2003). We structurally estimate the parameters of the model and calibrate it to data on 33 OECD countries and one country that...

This thesis is a collection of three essays in international trade. The thesis broadly addresses various aspects of trade related policies and their effects on consumer welfare. In the first chapter, I examine how global trade liberalization would affect different consumers and countries in...

I use firm-level data to show that neither the Log-normal nor the Pareto distribution can approximate the shape of the productivity distribution along the entire support. While the former under predicts the thickness of the right tail, the latter does not capture the shape of the left one. Using...