We develop a simple model of international trade with heterogeneous firms that is consistent with a number of stylized features of the data. In particular, the model predicts positive as well as zero trade flows across pairs of countries, and it allows the number of exporting firms to vary...

Part I. Commercial policy : empirical facts, determinants and effects. The empirical landscape of trade policy / C.P. Brown, M.A. Crowley -- The political economy of commercial policy / J. McLaren -- The effects of trade policy / P.K. Goldberg, N. Pavcnik -- Quantitative models of commercial...

Volume 1A. Part I. Commercial policy : empirical facts, determinants and effects. The empirical landscape of trade policy / C.P. Brown, M.A. Crowley -- The political economy of commercial policy / J. McLaren -- The effects of trade policy / P.K. Goldberg, N. Pavcnik -- Quantitative models of...

We study unanticipated tariffs on imports of intermediate goods in a setting with firm-to-firm supply relationships. Firms that produce differentiated products conduct costly searches for potential input suppliers and negotiate bilateral prices with those that pass a reservation level of match...

This book evaluates the evolution of regulatory policy in advanced countries and discusses how policy changes in one country can affect other nations in a globalized world. Separated in two parts, the first half of the book focuses on policy in developed countries and regulatory diffusion from...

Two of the most significant success stories of post-war trade diplomacy and multilateral trade negotiations that have occurred under the auspices of the GATT (now the WTO) have been the massive reductions in tariffs, and the establishment of non-discriminatory tariffs as the principal means of...

International conventions designed to combat global environmental problems -- known as Multilateral Environmental Agreements or MEAs -- often use trade measures, among other instruments. But in fact the term trade measures covers a variety of provisions, ranging from simple reporting...