This paper serves as an orientation towards the understanding of some of the contributions
and theoretical limitations in New Economic Geography and seeks to provide a prospective …

The monopolistic competition model in international trade offers three sources of gains from
trade beyond that of traditional comparative advantage: an endogenous expansion in …

We study the canonical Krugman (1979) trade model with non-CES preferences that yield
autarky at finite trade costs. We prove a non-monotone impact of gradual trade liberalization …

This article investigates the impact of trade liberalization on trade patterns, firm markups,
and firm locations in a two-factor monopolistic competition model that features variable …

We examine the impact of free trade agreement (FTA) use on import prices. For this analysis,
we employ establishment-level import data with information on tariff schemes, that is, the …

We provide more generalized properties of gains from trade and trade liberalization in
monopolistic competition models featuring firm heterogeneity characterized as Pareto …

This paper studies the market and welfare effects of income heterogeneity in
monopolistically competitive product markets in the context of nonhomothetic preferences. In …

Kimball preferences possess properties that make them a powerful tool for multi‐sector
applied general equilibrium. While they are homothetic, they also can be made arbitrarily …

This paper studies the effects of market enlargement in the context of monopolistic
competition, variable markups, and income heterogeneity. Market enlargement increases …

This paper examines the tax competition for mobile capital between two symmetric countries
in a monopolistic competition economy. Taxation generates its own distortions of location …