TY - JOUR AU - Helpman,Elhanan TI - The Structure of Foreign Trade JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 6752 PY - 1998 Y2 - October 1998 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6752 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6752.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Elhanan Helpman Department of Economics Harvard University 1875 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: 617-495-4690 Fax: 617-495-7730 E-Mail: ehelpman@harvard.edu AB - During the last two decades, new research has greatly advanced our understanding of the structure of world trade. This article reviews the empirical literature that grew out of this effort, emphasizing the ways in which it relied on theoretical developments. ER -