Recent empirical evidence has highlighted how the export patterns of multi-product firms dominate world trade flows …

confirmation of this competitive effect for French exporters across export market destinations. Trade models based on exogenous … export sales (after controlling for bilateral trade costs). Theoretically, this within firm change in product mix driven by …

Recent empirical evidence has highlighted how the export patterns of multi-product firms dominate world trade flows …

We analyze the interaction of economic and political determinants of free trade agreements (FTA). In addition to … standard trade gains, FTAs can promote peaceful relations by offering a political forum and by increasing the opportunity cost … of conflicts that disrupt trade. If policy makers believe in such pacifying effects of FTAs, country pairs with large …