Quantitative trade models: Developments and challenges

TJ Kehoe, PS Pujolas… - Annual Review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Applied general equilibrium (AGE) models, which feature multiple countries, multiple
industries, and input–output linkages across industries, have been the dominant tool for …

International trade with indirect additivity

P Bertoletti, F Etro, I Simonovska - American Economic Journal …, 2018 - aeaweb.org
We develop a general equilibrium model of trade that features “indirectly additive”
preferences and heterogeneous firms. Monopolistic competition generates markups that are …

Trade policies, firm heterogeneity, and variable markups

S Demidova - Journal of International Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
We study unilateral trade liberalization in a model of monopolistic competition with
heterogeneous firms, endogenous wages, and non-separable and non-homothetic …

Quality heterogeneity and misallocation: The welfare benefits of raising your standards

L Macedoni, A Weinberger - Journal of International Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
Using data from Chile, we find that more restrictive standards are associated with a
reallocation of domestic sales from small to large firms, which has allocative efficiency …

International spillovers of quality regulations

L Macedoni, A Weinberger - International Economic Review, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This article investigates the international spillover effects of nondiscriminatory product
regulations, for example, quality standards, in a multicountry general equilibrium framework …

Geography, competition, and optimal multilateral trade policy

A Nocco, GIP Ottaviano, M Salto - Journal of International Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
How should multilateral trade policy be designed in a world in which countries differ in terms
of market access and technology, and firms with market power differ in terms of productivity …

Quality, variable markups, and welfare: A quantitative general equilibrium analysis of export prices

H Fan, YA Li, S Xu, SR Yeaple - Journal of International Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
Modern trade models attribute the dispersion of international prices to physical and man-
made barriers to trade, to the pricing-to-market by heterogeneous producers and to …

International arbitrage and the extensive margin of trade between rich and poor countries

R Foellmi, C Hepenstrick, Z Josef - The Review of Economic …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We incorporate consumption indivisibilities into the Krugman (1980) model and show that an
importer's per capita income becomes a primary determinant of “export zeros”. Households …

How did Chinese exporters manage the trade war?

L Sheng, H Song, X Zheng - Available at SSRN 4610398, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper studies how Chinese exporters managed the recent US tariff hikes. Contrary to
the conventional wisdom of horizontal trade diversion, China did not divert more of its …

Markups and misallocation with evidence from exchange rate shocks

A Weinberger - Journal of Development Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
In a setting with firms that charge variable markups, this paper finds that firm heterogeneity
has welfare implications that result exclusively from the differential markup adjustment to …