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A note on trade costs and distance

Lawless, Martina ; Whelan, Karl (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2007-11)

One of the most famous and robust findings in international economics is that distance has a strong negative effect on trade. Bernard, Jensen, Redding, and Schott (2007) discuss how this can be decomposed into an effect ...
Where do firms export, how much, and why?

Lawless, Martina ; Whelan, Karl (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2008-09-22)

The empirical finding that exporting firms are more productive on average than non-exporters has provoked a large theoretical literature based on models such as Melitz (2003), where more productive firms are more likely ...