Heterogeneous firms and trade

MJ Melitz, SJ Redding - Handbook of international economics, 2014 - Elsevier
This chapter reviews the new approach to international trade based on firm heterogeneity in
differentiated product markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in …

Agglomeration theory with heterogeneous agents

K Behrens, F Robert-Nicoud - Handbook of regional and urban economics, 2015 - Elsevier
This chapter surveys recent developments in agglomeration theory within a unifying
framework. We highlight how locational fundamentals, agglomeration economies, the spatial …

How costly are markups?

C Edmond, V Midrigan, DY Xu - Journal of Political Economy, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
We study the welfare costs of markups in a dynamic model with heterogeneous firms and
endogenous markups. We provide aggregation results summarizing the macro implications …

[BOOK][B] Advanced international trade: theory and evidence

RC Feenstra - 2015 - books.google.com
Trade is a cornerstone concept in economics worldwide. This updated second edition of the
essential graduate textbook in international trade brings readers to the forefront of …

[BOOK][B] Who's Getting Globalized?: The Size and Implications of Intra-national Trade Costs

D Atkin, D Donaldson - 2015 - aeaweb.org
How large are the intra-national trade costs that separate consumers in remote locations of
develo** countries from global markets? What do those barriers imply for the intra …

Competition, markups, and the gains from international trade

C Edmond, V Midrigan, DY Xu - American Economic Review, 2015 - aeaweb.org
We study the procompetitive gains from international trade in a quantitative model with
endogenously variable markups. We find that trade can significantly reduce markup …

Supply chain resilience: Should policy promote international diversification or reshoring?

GM Grossman, E Helpman… - Journal of Political …, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
Little is known about optimal policy in the face of global supply chain disruptions. Should
governments promote resilience by subsidizing backup sources of input supply in multiple …

The unequal gains from product innovations: Evidence from the us retail sector

X Jaravel - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
This article examines how product innovations led to inflation inequality in the United States
from 2004 to 2015. Using scanner data from the retail sector, I find that annual inflation for …

Optimal spatial policies, geography, and sorting

PD Fajgelbaum, C Gaubert - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We study optimal spatial policies in a quantitative trade and geography framework with
spillovers and spatial sorting of heterogeneous workers. We characterize the spatial …

Cascading failures in production networks

DR Baqaee - Econometrica, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This paper analyzes a general equilibrium economy featuring input‐output connections,
imperfect competition, and external economies of scale owing to entry and exit. The …