Trade, Location and Multiproduct Firms

Rikard Forslid and Toshihiro Okubo

No 13528, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: In this paper we study how trade liberalization affects the location and the product scope of firms. We find that the largest and most productive multiproduct firms concentrate to the larger market as a result of trade liberalization. In the presence of relocation costs, we also find that these firms will expand their product range in the larger market while firms in the smaller market will contract their product scope. These effects are magnified with firm-level productivity. The findings are consistent with Japanese manufacturing firm data.

Keywords: Multi-product firms; Heterogeneous firms; Trade liberalization; Firm location (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F12 F15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-02
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