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CEP discussion paper
Reconciling observed tariffs and the median voter model

Median voter theory applied to trade policy predicts positive tariffs in capital-abundant countries and negative tariffs in labor-abundant countries. Negative tariffs are rare, and this paper reconciles the median voter ...Read more...

Swati Dhingra

15 July 2014

CEP discussion paper
Tax Cuts in Open Economies

A reduction in income tax rates generates substantial dynamic responses within the framework of the standard neoclassical growth model. The short-run revenue loss after an income tax cut is partly - or, depending on para...Read more...

Alejandro Cu?at, Szabolcs Deak and Marco Maffezzoli

March 2008

CEP discussion paper
Can Comparative Advantage Explain the Growth of US Trade?

We present a dynamic comparative advantage model in which moderate reductions in trade costs can generate sizable increases in trade volumes over time. A fall in trade costs has two effects on the volume of trade. First,...Read more...

Alejandro Cu?at and Marco Maffezzoli

January 2005

CEP discussion paper
Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Firms

This paper presents a model of international trade that features heterogeneous firms, relative endowment differences across countries, and consumer taste for variety. The paper demonstrates that firm reactions to trade l...Read more...

Andrew B. Bernard, Stephen J. Redding and Peter K. Schott

August 2004

CEP discussion paper
Survival of the Best Fit: Exposure to Low-Wage Countries and the (Uneven) Growth of U.S. Manufacturing Plants

This paper examines the role of international trade in the reallocation of U.S. manufacturing activity within and across industries from 1977 to 1997. It introduces a new measure of industry exposure to international tra...Read more...

Andrew B. Bernard, J. Bradford Jensen and Peter K. Schott

September 2003

CEP discussion paper
Factor Endowments and Production in European Regions

This paper analyses patterns of production across 14 industries in 45 regions from 7 European countries since 1975. We estimate a structural equation derived directly from Heckscher-Ohlin theory that relates an industry'...Read more...

Stephen J. Redding and Mercedes Vera-Martin

July 2001