Barroso, João Barata R. B. - Central Bank of Brazil, Research Department - 2013
Does international trade shrink the steady state measure of domestic firms? The most recent models with heterogeneous firms suggest it does (Melitz (2003), Chaney (2007) and Arkolakis (2008)). The main force at work in such models is the selection of the fittest, with the least efficient firms...