This paper assesses the political viability of free trade agreements (FTAs) in the presence of lobbying by organized foreign interest groups. The assessment is based on a model in which external tariffs and the decision to form an FTA are endogenously determined. The findings demonstrate that,...

Knowledge spillovers through worker mobility between firms, found in previous research, imply that knowledge production within firms creates a positive externality to the hiring firms and their workers. We calculate the shares in the gains from spillovers retained by these parties using matched...

We show, in a very plausible theoretical setting, that control function estimators (CFEs) of firm production function, such as Olley-Pakes, may be biased. The bias will occur, in particular, when investments respond differently to short- and long-lasting changes in productivity. We modify the...