Firm entry, trade, and welfare in Zipf's world

Journal of International Economics

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 283-296

  di Giovanni, Julian ^a   Levchenko, Andrei A ^b,c  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Entry costs; Trade barriers; Welfare; Zipf's Law

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC POLICY; EXPORT; FIRM SIZE; TRADE; TRADE LIBERALIZATION; TRADE POLICY; WELFARE IMPACT;

EID: 84873997059     PISSN: 00221996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Alvarez Fernando, Lucas Robert E. General equilibrium analysis of the Eaton-Kortum model of international trade. Journal of Monetary Economics 2007, 54(6):1726-1768. (September).
2. Anderson James, van Wincoop Eric Trade costs. Journal of Economic Literature 2004, 42(3):691-751.
3. Arkolakis Costas Market penetration costs and the new consumers margin in international trade. Journal of Political Economy 2010, 118(6):1151-1199. (December).
4. Arkolakis Costas, Demidova Svetlana, Klenow Peter J., Rodríguez-Clare Andrés Endogenous variety and the gains from trade. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 2008, 98(2):444-450. (May).
5. Arkolakis Costas, Costinot Arnaud, Rodríguez-Clare Andrés New trade models, same old gains?. American Economic Review 2012, 102(1):94-130. (February).
6. Atkeson Andrew, Burstein Ariel Innovation, firm dynamics, and international trade. Journal of Political Economy 2010, 3:433-484. (June).
7. Axtell Robert L. Zipf distribution of U.S. firm sizes. Science 2001, 293(5536):1818-1820. (September).
8. Bekkers Eddy, Francois Joseph Heterogeneous firms, the structure of industry, and trade under oligopoly. Working Paper 0811 2008, Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, August.
9. Bernard Andrew B., Eaton Jonathan, Bradford Jensen J., Kortum Samuel Plants and productivity in international trade. American Economic Review 2003, 93(4):1268-1290. (September).
10. Bernard Andrew, Bradford Jensen J., Redding Stephen, Schott Peter Firms in international trade. Journal of Economic Perspectives 2007, 21:105-130.
11. Broda Christian, Weinstein David Globalization and the gains from variety. Quarterly Journal of Economics 2006, 121(2):541-585. (May).
12. Chaney Thomas Distorted gravity: the intensive and extensive margins of international trade. American Economic Review 2008, 4:1707-1721. (September).
13. Crozet Matthieu, Koenig Pamina Structural gravity equation with extensive and intensive margins. Canadian Journal of Economics 2010, 43(1):41-62. (February).
14. di Giovanni Julian, Levchenko Andrei A. Firm entry, trade, and welfare in Zipf's world. NBER Working Paper No. 16313 2010, August.
15. di Giovanni Julian, Levchenko Andrei A. Country size, international trade, and aggregate fluctuations in granular economies. NBER Working Paper No. 17335 2011, August.
16. di Giovanni Julian, Levchenko Andrei A., Rancière Romain Power laws in firm size and openness to trade: measurement and implications. Journal of International Economics 2011, 85(1):42-52. (September).
17. Djankov Simeon, La Porta Rafael, Lopez-de-Silanes Florencio, Shleifer Andrei The regulation of entry. Quarterly Journal of Economics 2002, 117(1):1-37.
18. Easterly William, Reshef Ariell, Schwenkenberg Julia The power of exports. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 5081 2009, October.
19. Eaton Jonathan, Kortum Samuel S. Technology in the global economy: a framework for quantitative analysis. Book Manuscript 2005, New York University and University of Chicago.
20. Eaton Jonathan, Kortum Samuel S., Kramarz Francis An anatomy of international trade: evidence from French firms. Econometrica 2011, 5:1453-1498. (September).
21. Eaton Jonathan, Kortum Samuel S., Sotelo Sebastian International trade: linking micro and macro. NBER Working Paper No. 17864 2012, February.
22. Feenstra Robert C. Measuring the gains from trade under monopolistic competition. Canadian Journal of Economics 2010, 43(1):1-28. (February).
23. Fujiwara Yoshi, Aoyama Hideaki, Di Guilmi Corrado, Souma Wataru, Gallegati Mauro Gibrat and Pareto-Zipf Revisited with European firms. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 2004, 344(1-2):112-116.
24. Gabaix Xavier Power laws in economics and finance. Annual Reviews of Economics 2009, 1:255-293.
25. Gabaix Xavier, Ibragimov Rustam Rank-1/2: a simple way to improve the OLS estimation of tail exponents. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 2011, 29(1):24-39. (January).
26. Goldberg Pinelopi, Khandelwal Amit, Pavcnik Nina, Topalova Petia Trade liberalization and new imported inputs. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 2009, 99(2):494-500. (May).
27. Goldberg Pinelopi, Khandelwal Amit, Pavcnik Nina, Topalova Petia Imported intermediate inputs and domestic product growth: evidence from India. Quarterly Journal of Economics 2010, 125(4):1727-1767. (November).
28. Helpman Elhanan, Melitz Marc, Rubinstein Yona Estimating trade flows: trading partners and trading volumes. Quarterly Journal of Economics 2008, 123(2):441-487. (May).
29. Hinloopen Jeroen, van Marrewijk Charles Comparative advantage, the rank-size rule, and Zipf's law. Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper 06-100/1 2006.
30. International Monetary Fund Directions of Trade Statistics 2007.
31. Jones Charles Intermediate goods and weak links in the theory of economic development. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 2011, 3(2):1-28. (April).
32. Krugman Paul Scale economies, product differentiation, and the pattern of trade. American Economic Review 1980, 70(5):950-959.
33. Luttmer Erzo Selection, growth, and the size distribution of firms. Quarterly Journal of Economics 2007, 122:1103-1144.
34. Melitz Marc J. The impact of trade on intra-industry reallocations and aggregate industry productivity. Econometrica 2003, 6:1695-1725. (November).
35. Neary J.Peter Two and a half theories of trade. The World Economy 2010, 33(1):1-19. (January).
36. Okuyama K., Takayasu M., Takayasu H. Zipf's law in income distribution of companies. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 1999, 269(1):125-131.
37. The World Bank Doing Business Indicators 2007.
38. The World Bank World Development Indicators 2007.
39. Waugh Michael International trade and income differences. American Economic Review 2010, 100(5):2093-2124. (December).