The gravity model

JE Anderson - Annu. Rev. Econ., 2011 - annualreviews.org
Gravity has long been one of the most successful empirical models in economics.
Incorporating deeper theoretical foundations of gravity into recent practice has led to a richer …

SME innovation, exporting and growth: A review of existing evidence

JH Love, S Roper - International small business journal, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
This article summarises and synthesises the evidence on SME innovation, exporting and
growth, paying particular attention to internal and external (eco-system) enablers, and for the …

[BOOK][B] Multinational enterprises and the global economy

JH Dunning, SM Lundan - 2008 - books.google.com
For many years to come this volume... is surely going to be the ultimate reference work on
international business... thanks to Dunning and Lundan, have at their disposal, a wealth of …

The impact of trade on intra‐industry reallocations and aggregate industry productivity

MJ Melitz - econometrica, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
This paper develops a dynamic industry model with heterogeneous firms to analyze the intra‐
industry effects of international trade. The model shows how the exposure to trade will …

New trade models, same old gains?

C Arkolakis, A Costinot… - American Economic …, 2012 - aeaweb.org
Micro-level data have had a profound influence on research in international trade over the
last ten years. In many regards, this research agenda has been very successful. New …

Distorted gravity: the intensive and extensive margins of international trade

T Chaney - American economic review, 2008 - aeaweb.org
By considering a model with identical firms, Krugman (1980) predicts that a higher elasticity
of substitution between goods magnifies the impact of trade barriers on trade flows. In this …

Why do management practices differ across firms and countries?

N Bloom, J Van Reenen - Journal of economic perspectives, 2010 - aeaweb.org
Economists have long puzzled over the astounding differences in productivity between firms
and countries. In this paper, we present evidence on a possible explanation for persistent …

Global sourcing

P Antras, E Helpman - Journal of political Economy, 2004 - journals.uchicago.edu
We present a North-South model of international trade in which differentiated products are
developed in the North. Sectors are populated by final-good producers who differ in …

Exports and productivity: A survey of the evidence from firm‐level data

J Wagner - World economy, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
While the role of exports in promoting growth in general, and productivity in particular, has
been investigated empirically using aggregate data for countries and industries for a long …

A review of the empirical literature on FDI determinants

BA Blonigen - Atlantic economic journal, 2005 - Springer
This paper surveys the recent burgeoning literature that empirically examines the foreign
direct investment (FDI) decisions of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and the resulting …