The unique capital structure of commercial banking - funding production with demandable debt that participates in the economyś payments system - affects various aspects of banking. It shapes banks ́comparative advantage in providing financial products and services to informationally opaque...

This paper investigates the relation between agglomeration of economic activity and the pattern of specialization of countries. We develop a model encompassing a Ricardian comparative advantage, increasing returns to scale, product differentiation, monopolistic competition, trade costs, and...

This paper presents a somewhat new econometric framework that permits simultaneous estimation of price-cost margins, scale economies and productivity from a panel of establishment data. The econometric model contains only a few, economically interesting parameters to be estimated, but it is...