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From Selling Goods to Selling Services: Firm Responses to Trade Liberalization (2018)
Journal Article
Breinlich, H., Soderbery, A., & Wright, G. C. (2018). From Selling Goods to Selling Services: Firm Responses to Trade Liberalization. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 10(4), 79-108. https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20150116

© 2018, American Economic Association. In this paper, we focus on a new channel of adaptation to trade liberalization, namely the shift toward increased provision of services in lieu of goods production. We exploit variation in European Union trade p... Read More about From Selling Goods to Selling Services: Firm Responses to Trade Liberalization.

The impact of trade agreements on consumerwelfare-evidence from the EU common external trade policy (2018)
Journal Article
Berlingieri, G., Breinlich, H., & Dhingra, S. (2018). The impact of trade agreements on consumerwelfare-evidence from the EU common external trade policy. Journal of European Economic Association, 16(6), 1881-1928. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvx053

© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of European Economic Association. All rights reserved. This paper estimates the consumer welfare impact of the new generation of trade agreements implemented by the European Union b... Read More about The impact of trade agreements on consumerwelfare-evidence from the EU common external trade policy.

Producer services and trade liberalization (2017)
Book Chapter
Breinlich, H. (2017). Producer services and trade liberalization. In D. Richardson, N. Castree, M. M. Goodchild, A. Kobayashi, W. Liu, & R. A. Marston (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Geography. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0460

Trade liberalization and recent advances in communication and information technologies increasingly permit the trade of producer services across borders. This entry discusses research on the nature and importance of such trade, and on the consequence... Read More about Producer services and trade liberalization.

International aspects of merger policy: a survey (2016)
Journal Article
Breinlich, H., Nocke, V., & Schutz, N. (2017). International aspects of merger policy: a survey. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 50, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijindorg.2016.05.001

This paper surveys the literature on merger policy in open economies. We first adopt a reduced-form approach to derive general insights on the scope for conflict between national antitrust authorities and on the gains from international merger policy... Read More about International aspects of merger policy: a survey.

Tariffs, Trade and Productivity: A Quantitative Evaluation of Heterogeneous Firm Models (2015)
Journal Article
Cuñat, A., Breinlich, H., & Cunat, A. (2016). Tariffs, Trade and Productivity: A Quantitative Evaluation of Heterogeneous Firm Models. Economic Journal, 126(595), 1660-1702. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12218

© 2014 Royal Economic Society We examine the quantitative predictions of heterogeneous firm in the context of the Canada–US Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA) of 1989. We compute predicted increases in trade flows and measured productivity and compare the... Read More about Tariffs, Trade and Productivity: A Quantitative Evaluation of Heterogeneous Firm Models.

Heterogeneous firm-level responses to trade liberalization: a test using stock price reactions (2014)
Journal Article
Breinlich, H. (2014). Heterogeneous firm-level responses to trade liberalization: a test using stock price reactions. Journal of International Economics, 93(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2014.04.002

This paper presents novel empirical evidence on key predictions of heterogeneous firm models by examining stock market reactions to the Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement of 1989 (CUSFTA). I derive testable predictions for a class of models ba... Read More about Heterogeneous firm-level responses to trade liberalization: a test using stock price reactions.