The relationship between trade liberalisation and the environment has been the subject of a growing body of literature in recent years. As can be seen from the differing assessment of instrument types for environmental protection, one of the important factors for the relationship between environmental protection and economic competitiveness are regulatory stringency and efficiency. This concern...

This paper develops a new model with heterogeneous firms under perfect competition in Heckscher-Ohlin setting. We derive novel prediction regarding the effect of minimum wages on selection, namely that binding wage will raise (or lower) TFP at firm and industry level depending whether capital intensity entry costs exceeds (falls short of) production. Exploiting rich regional variation across Ch...

Motivated by increasing trade and fragmentation of production across countries, accompanied income convergence many emerging economies, we build a dynamic two-country model featuring sequential, multi-stage capital accumulation. As costs decline over time, global-value-chain (GVC) expands particularly more in the faster-growing country, consistent with empirical pattern. Via Heckscher–Ohlin for...

We decompose the factor content of trade into Heckscher–Ohlin–Vanek trade and Ricardian trade. We measure factor content using only the United States' technology and also as Leontief advocated, using the local technology. In either case, differences in endowments are quite important in explaining the factor content of trade. If one uses raw estimated coefficients as a means of comparison, diffe...

Motivated by the non-linear and S-shaped pattern between trade liberalization and capital inflow observed in cross country data, this paper offers a new perspective in understanding the relation between these two. The static model nests Melitz style heterogenous firms with endogenous mark-up within a classical Heckscher-Ohlin style comparative advantage frame work. In this integrated model trad...