trade flows of nations, and the consequential implications for the levels of per capita income and welfare of their … populations. The first of these documents a pattern of comparative advantage in product level, bilateral trade data that … conventional quantitative trade models have difficulty explaining. It goes on to develop a theory of product level productivity …

First chapter aims to quantify the role of trade in capital goods incross country income differences. I construct a … multi-country general equilibriummodel of trade along the line of Eaton and Kortum (2002) and Alvarezand Lucas (2007) and … introduce trade in capital goods and capital accumulation.In this framework, comparative advantage and the costs of …

This dissertation consists of three essays in International Trade. The first essay studies the impact of changing … trade flows to such an extent that the relatively moderate tariff reductions since WW II can explain the strong growth of … world trade. The second essay investigates the sector and country determinants of the range of goods that countries export …