Productivity and Firm Selection: Quantifying the 'New' Gains from Trade

Economic Journal

Volumn 122, Issue 561, 2012, Pages 754-798

  Corcos, Gregory ^a   Del Gatto, Massimo ^b   Mion, Giordano ^c,d   Ottaviano, Gianmarco I P ^c,e  

^a NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^d CEPR and SERC ^*  (United Kingdom)

^e BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); COMPETITIVENESS; COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; ECONOMY OF SCALE; EUROPEAN UNION; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRADE LIBERALIZATION; TRADE POLICY;

EID: 84861699547     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2011.02487.x     Document Type: Article

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