We build a heterogeneous-firms model with firm-specific wages and credit frictions to study the role of financial development for inequality in the global economy. If there are many small firms, better access to external funds reduces wage inequality and unemployment. In contrast, if there are...

In contrast to what several papers have argued recently, we show that firm heterogeneity fosters agglomeration of economic activity. If firms are more similar with respect to their total factor productivity, each company faces a lower propensity to export. This renders the home market more...

In this paper, we provide novel evidence on the contemporaneous and persistent effects of regional policy. We apply a quasi-experimental identification strategy exploiting the fact that municipalities in the West-German Zonenrandgebiet (ZRG) were eligible for substantial regional transfers...

We develop a heterogeneous-firms model with trade in goods, labor mobility and credit constraints due to moral hazard. Mitigating financial frictions reduces the incentive of mobile workers to migrate to one region such that an unequal distribution of industrial activity becomes less likely....

I show in this paper that incomplete contracts affect a firm's decision about serving foreign customers through exports or local sales from an affiliated plant. When contracts between two agents within a firm are too costly to write, the share of multinational firms may be higher or lower...

Auch Tobias Seidel, CES, folgt dieser Argumentationslinie im Rahmen der klassischen Handelstheorie und eines Zwei-Güter-Zwei-Länder-Ansatzes - allerdings unter der Annahme rigider Löhne - und kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass die Verteidigung des hohen Lohnniveaus gegen die Marktkräfte zwar zu...

Deutschland steckt in einer Umbruchphase. Der Trend zu Produktionsverlagerungen hat in den letzten Jahren in steigendem Maße auch mittelständische Unternehmen erfasst. Während die großen Konzerne auf Grund ihrer Ressourcen weltweit aktiv sein können, nutzen kleinere Firmen die...