Trade, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Institutions

This paper investigates the relationship between international trade and the quality of economic institutions. We model institutions as fixed costs of entry, in a framework that has two key features. First, preferences over entry costs differ across firms and depend on firm size. Larger firms prefer...

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Main Authors: Do, Quy-Toan, Levchenko, Andrei A.
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5668