Trade and Inequality: From Theory to Estimation

Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki, Marc-Andreas Muendler, Stephen J. Redding

NBER Working Paper No. 17991
Issued in April 2012

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We thank the National Science Foundation for financial support. We also thank SECEX/MEDIC and Ricardo Markwald at FUNCEX Rio de Janeiro for sharing firm trade data. We are very grateful to Sam Bazzi, Lorenzo Casaburi, Itzik Fadlon, Adam Guren, Eduardo Morales and Jesse Schreger for excellent research assistance. We thank Mark Aguiar, Carlos Henrique Corseuil, Kerem Cosar, Angus Deaton, Thibault Fally, Cecilia Fieler, Leo Feler, Gita Gopinath, Gene Grossman, Bo Honore, Guido Imbens, Larry Katz, Francis Kramarz, Rasmus Lentz, Marc Melitz, Naercio Menezes-Filho, Eduardo Morales, Ulrich Muller, Andriy Norets, Richard Rogerson, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Andres Santos, Mine Senses, Chris Sims, John Van Reenen, Jon Vogel, Yoto Yotov and seminar participants at the IAE Workshop at UAB, Columbia, FGV Rio de Janeiro, Harvard, Humboldt Berlin, IAS, IGC Trade Programme Meeting at Columbia, JHU-SAIS, Notre Dame, Princeton, Toronto, the Philadelphia Fed Trade Workshop, UC San Diego, Wisconsin and WTO for helpful comments and suggestions. The usual disclaimer applies. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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