Productivity and Firm Selection: Quantifying the ‘New’ Gains from Trade†

  1. Gregory Corcos1,
  2. Massimo Del Gatto2,
  3. Giordano Mion3,
  4. Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano4

Article first published online: 1 DEC 2011

DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2011.02487.x

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The Economic Journal

The Economic Journal

Volume 122, Issue 561, pages 754–798, June 2012

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Corcos, G., Del Gatto, M., Mion, G. and Ottaviano, G. I.P. (2012), Productivity and Firm Selection: Quantifying the ‘New’ Gains from Trade. The Economic Journal, 122: 754–798. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2011.02487.x

Author Information

  1. 1

    NHH (Norwegian School of Economics)

  2. 2

    G.d'Annunzio University and CRENoS

  3. 3

    London School of Economics, CEP, CEPR and SERC

  4. 4

    London School of Economics, Bocconi University, CEP, CEPR and FEEM

  1. †

    Corresponding author: Giordano Mion, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. Email: G.Mion@lse.ac.uk.

  2. We thank Pol Antràs, Stefano Breschi, Francesco Caselli, Armando Dominioni, Jonathan Eaton, Gino Gancia, Keith Head, Elhanan Helpman, Hubert Jayet, Samuel Kortum, Thierry Mayer, Michael Pfaffermayr, Eric Strobl, Silvana Tenreyro and Jaume Ventura for helpful comments and discussions, as well as seminar participants at Harvard University, the London School of Economics, University of Cagliari, University of Bologna, Bocconi University, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Université Catholique de Louvain, Universidad de Vigo and conference participants to the 10th GTAP Conference at Purdue University, the 2008 ‘Annual Workshop on Trade and Productivity’ at CRENoS, the 2009 ETSG conference in Rome, the IME-ISGEP 2010 Workshop on Firm Selection and Country Competitiveness in Nice. The second author acknowledges financial support from the European Union under the FP7 SSH Project ‘Intangible Assets and Regional Economic Growth’ grant n. 216813. The fourth author acknowledges financial support from MIUR. Part of this research was done while the first author was visiting Harvard University, whose hospitality is gratefully acknowledged. Errors are ours.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 1 JUN 2012
  2. Article first published online: 1 DEC 2011
  3. Submitted: 30 March 2009 Accepted: 29 August 2011

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