Trade Flows, Multilateral Resistance and Firm Heterogeneity.

We present a gravity model that accounts for multilateral resistance, firm heterogeneity and country-selection into trade, while accommodating asymmetries in trade flows. A new equation for the proportion of exporting firms takes a gravity form: the extensive margin is also affected by multilateral...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Behar, A, Nelson, B
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: Department of Economics (University of Oxford) 2009