《Plants and Productivity in International Trade》.pdf

Plants and Productivity in International Trade Andrew B. Bernard; Jonathan Eaton; J. Bradford Jensen; Samuel Kortum The American Economic Review, Vol. 93, No. 4. (Nov., 2003), pp. 1268-1290. Stable URL: /sici?sici=0002-82822993%3A4%3C1268%3APAPIIT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H The American Economic Review is currently published by American Economic Association. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTORs Terms and Conditions of Use, available at /about/terms.html. JSTORs Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at /journals/aea.html. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is an independent not-for-profit organization dedicated to and preserving a digital archive of scholarly journals. For more information regarding JSTOR, please contact support@. Sat Jan 6 10:34:32 2007 Plants and Productivity in InternationalTrade We reconcile trade theory withplant-level export behavior, extending the Ricardian model to accommodate many countries, geographic barriers, and imperfect com- petition. Our model captures qualitatively basic facts about U.S.plants: (i)pro- ductivity dispersion, (ii)higherproductivity among exporters, (iii)the smallfracti