Over the 1990s when Japan's city banks suffered from nonperforming loans, the number of small manufacturing establishments substantially declined. We use a heterogeneous firm model and examine how a banking crisis intensifies the exit of small firms. Our model predicts that a banking crisis has...

During 1995-2007, China enacted reforms fostering competition including acceding to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and encouraging entry of non-state firms. While there is evidence that firms reduced markups, there is competing evidence that incumbent firms gained rents. We estimate the...

Past empirical failures of the basic Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek (HOV) model related to the inability of data to meet its restrictive assumptions, particularly identical international technologies and factor price equalization. Trefler (1993) tried to resuscitate HOV by introducing a simple...

We discuss specification of regression models for using migration data to infer the living standards of different regions, and for observing how much of the standard of living is determined by economic opportunities versus non-pecuniary amenities. We estimate a regression using Canadian data...

The author investigates the determinants of the hazard rates of both starting and quitting the cigarette smoking habit. The model is an ordered probit split-sample duration model with lagged duration dependence and time-varying covariates (cigarette price and regulation). Duration of the smoking...