In theoretical trade models with variable markups and collective wage bargaining, export exposure may reduce the exporter wage premium. We test this prediction using linked German employer-employee data from 1996 to 2007. To separate the rent-sharing mechanism from assortative matching, we...

Does trade openness cause higher GDP per capita? Since the seminal instrumental variables (IV) estimates of Frankel and Romer [F&R](1999) important doubts have surfaced. Is the correlation spurious and driven by omitted geographical and institutional variables? In this paper, we generalize F&R's...

In Deutschland werden den Unternehmen Exportkreditgarantien zur Verfügung gestellt, die auch als "Hermesdeckungen" bekannt sind. Im Rahmen einer aktuellen Studie hat das ifo Institut die Beschäftigungseffekte der Hermesdeckungen für die letzten zehn Jahre evaluiert. Die Analyse zeigte, dass...

Increasing-returns-to-scale imperfect competition trade models predict a more than proportionate relationship between the larger country's share in world endowments and its share in producing firms: the so called home market effect (HME). While this result plays a key role in empirical testing,...