in levels of decentralization across firms and links it to the trade environment that firms face. We introduce firms with … internal hierarchies in a Melitz and Ottaviano (2008) model of international trade. We show that international trade increases …

talent as the new stakeholder in the firm. This paper examines the role of trade integration in the changing nature of the … corporation. International trade leads to a ‘war for talent’ which makes it more likely that an organizational equilibrium emerges … capital. Furthermore, trade integration is shown to lead to waves of decentralization and to convergence in corporate cultures …

We examine the impact of transnational terrorism diffusion on security and international trade. To counter the … potentially diffuse. Since security measures raise trade costs, we argue that countries, close enough to those from where terror … originates, should experience negative spillovers on their trade. We find evidence for this hypothesis in our data. We show that …

We examine the impact of transnational terrorism diffusion on security and international trade. To counter the … potentially diffuse. Since security measures raise trade costs, we argue that countries, close enough to those from where terror … originates, should experience negative spillovers on their trade. We find evidence for this hypothesis in our data. We show that …

How well does the theory of the firm explain the choice between intrafirm and arm's-length trade? This paper uses firm …

We provide a model of product-based cultural change where trade integration leads to cultural convergence. A standard … trade model of Dixit–Stiglitz monopolistic competition is coupled with a micro-founded model of cultural dynamics. We show …

In this article, we assess the impact of counterterrorism measures on trade. Our work brings three value addition to … measures, and trade; (2) it delivers an original strategy to identify empirically the effect of counterterrorism security … measures on trade flows (using third country incidents); and (3) it uses a new data set on business visas issued by the United …