Trade and industrial structure with large firms and heterogeneity

Micro Heterogeneity of Firms and the Stability of Industrial Growth

The Home Market, Trade, and Industrial Structure

Does national market size matter for industrial structure? This has been suggested by theoretical work on "home market" effects. In the present paper, I show that what previously was regarded as an assumption of conveniencetransport costs only for the differentiated goods-matters a great deal. In afocal case in which differentiated and homogeneous goods have identical transport costs, the home ...

the past hospitalization and its association with suicide attempts and ideation in patients with mdd and comparison with bmd (depressed type) group

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Innovation and Trade with Heterogeneous Firms

This paper examines how trade liberalization affects the innovation incentives of firms, and what this implies for industry productivity and social welfare. For this purpose we develop a reciprocal dumping model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and endogenous R&D. We identify two effects of trade liberalization on productivity: a direct effect through changes in R&D investment, a...

Trade and Prices with Heterogeneous Firms∗

This paper estimates a heterogeneous firms trade model using disaggregate data on export values and prices. Prices contain information about differences in product quality across firms and countries that helps identify key mechanisms in the model. Examining within-country variation in export prices across destination markets, I find that prices behave in a manner inconsistent with the benchmark...