I propose a network/search view of international trade in differentiated products. I present evidence that supports the view that proximity and common language/colonial ties are more important for differentiated products than for products traded on organized exchanges in matching international

in International Trade

The effect of technological innovation on international trade

appreciation on productivity, plant entry and exit, and labor turnover in U.S. manufacturing. (JEL F11, F17, O33) A new empirical literature has emerged that examines international trade at the level of in-dividual producers. Bernard and Jensen (1995, 1999a), Sofronis Clerides et al. (1998), and Bee Yan Aw et

trade and industrial pol-icy using models of international trade with imperfect competition and econo-mies of scale provides a useful framework in which arguments about the scope

the international trade in Asian and African elephant

Despite the fact that importing and exporting are extremely rare firm activities, economists generally devote little attention to the role of firms when discussing international trade. This paper summarizes key differences between trading and non-trading firms, demonstrates how these differences

T hat increasing exports would result in increasing employment is almost self-evident. If we—as a nation or as a state—produce more goods and services for export, then that increased production should translate into more jobs. The International Trade Administration (ITA) of the U.S. Department

We look beneath bilateral trade data by examining the exports and imports of in French manufacturing firms. One striking finding is that variation in trade dividual across sources and destinations is much more the consequence of variation volumes the number of firms participating than in how much

munications technologies allow even the smallest firms to build partnerships with for-eign producers to tap overseas expertise, cost-savings, and markets... The scarce re-source in this new environment is the ability to locate foreign partners quickly and to man-age complex business relationships across cul-tural and linguistic boundaries... [T]he Chinese and Indian entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley... are creating social structures that enable even the smallest producers to locate and maintain mutually beneficial collabo-rations across long distances. [AnnaLee Saxenian 1999, pp. 54–55] 1.