Gravity
(*) Anderson, J. E. and E. van Wincoop (2003), "Gravity with Gravitas: A Solution to the Border Puzzle," American Economic Review, 93: 170-192.
Anderson, J. E. and E. van Wincoop (2004). "Trade Costs". Journal of Economic Literature, 42: 691-751.
Krugman, P.R. (1980). "Scale Economies, Product Dierentiation, and the Pattern of Trade". American Economic Review, 70: 950-959
Ricardian Analysis
(*) Dornbusch, R., S. Fischer, and P.A. Samuelson (1977), "Comparative Advantage, Trade, and Payments with a Continuum of Goods," American Economic Review, 67: 823-839.
(*) Eaton J. and S. Kortum (2002), "Technology, Geography, and Trade." Econometrica, 70: 1741-1779 1
Heterogeneous Firms
(*) Melitz, M.. (2003), "The Impact of Trade on Intra-Industry Reallocations and Aggregate Industry Productivity," Econometrica, 71: 1695-1726.
(*) Chaney, T. (2006), "Distorted Gravity: Heterogeneous Firms, Market Structure, and the Geography of International Trade," American Economic Review.
(*) C. Hottman, S. Redding and D. Weinstein. 2016. "Quantifying the Sources of Firm Heterogeneity," Quarterly Journal of Economics
Melitz, M., and S. Redding. "Heterogeneous Firms and Trade." NBER Working Paper No. 18652, 2012. (Handbook (2013))
Arkolakis, C., and Arnaud Costinot. "New Trade Models, Same Old Gains?" American Economic Review 102, no. 1 (2012): 94{130.
Bernard, A.B., J. Eaton, J.B. Jensen and S. Kortum (2003). "Plants and Productivity in International Trade". American Economic Review,
Vol. 93, No. 4, September, pp. 1268-1290.
Yeaple, S. R. (2002), "A Simple Model of Firm Heterogeneity, International Trade, and Wages," Journal of International Economics, 65: 1-20.
Multinational Corporations
(*) Helpman, E., M.J. Melitz, and S.R. Yeaple (2003), "Exports vs. FDI with Heterogeneous Firms,"American Economic Review, 94: 300-316.
Helpman, E. (2006), "Trade, FDI, and the Organization of Firms," Journal of Economic Literature, 46: 589-630.
Irarrazabal, Moxnes and Opromolla (2013). "The Margins of Multinational Production and the Role of Intra rm Trade", Journal of Political Economy.
Markusen, "The boundaries of multinational enterprises and the theory of international trade," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1995, 169-189.
Vertical Specialization
(*) Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg (2008), "Trading Tasks: A Simple Theory of Offshoring", American Economic Review, 98(5): 1978-97.
Yi (2010), "Can Multi-Stage Production Explain the Home Bias in Trade?," American Economic Review, 100(1): 364{93.
Yi (2003), "Can Vertical Specialization Explain the Growth of World Trade?," Journal of Political Economy, 111: 52-102.
Domestic Trade Costs
(*) Donaldson and Hornbeck, 2016. "Railroads and American Economic Growth: A "Market Access" Approach", Quarterly Journal of Economics.
(*) A. Bernard, A. Moxnes and Y. Saito. 2015. "Production Networks, Geography and Firm Performance".
Donaldson, Dave. "Railroads of the Raj: Estimating the Impact of Transportation Infrastructure," forthcoming American Economic Review.
S. Redding. 2016. "Goods Trade, Factor Mobility and Welfare," Journal of International Economics
Applications
(*) Bernard A. B., J. B. Jensen and P. Schott, "Firms in International Trade", Journal of Economic Perspectives.
(*) Pavcnik, N. (2002). "Trade Liberalization, Exit, and Productivity Improvements: Evidence from Chilean Plants". The Review of Economic Studies 69, January 2002, pp. 245-76.
(*) Costinot, Arnaud and Dave Donaldson. \What Goods Do Countries Trade? A Quantitative Exploration of Ricardo's Ideas." Review of Economic Studies 79, no. 2 (2012): 581-608.
Bernard A. B., J. B. Jensen, S. Redding and P. Schott, "Global Firms", forthcoming Journal of Economic Literature.
Elhanan Helpman & Marc Melitz & Yona Rubinstein, 2008. "Estimating Trade Flows: Trading Partners and Trading Volumes," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press, vol. 123(2), pages 441-487, 05.
Eaton, Jonathan, Samuel Kortum, and Francis Kramarz (2011). "An Anatomy of International Trade". Econometrica.
Roberts, M.J. and J.R. Tybout (1997). "The Decision to Export in Columbia: An Empirical Model of Entry with Sunk Costs". American Economic Review, 87: 545-564.
Tybout, James (2001). "Plant- and Firm-level Evidence on the New Trade Theories". (in E. Kwan Choi and James Harrigan, ed., Handbook of International Trade, Oxford: Basil-Blackwell, 2003, and NBER Working Paper No. 8418).
Papers marked with (*) are required Readings.