Kehoe, Timothy J.

The Opportunity Costs of Entrepreneurs in International Trade / Timothy J. Kehoe, Pau S. Pujolas, Kim J. Ruhl. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2016. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w22514 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w22514. .

August 2016.

We show that a trade model with an exogenous set of heterogeneous firms with fixed operating costs has the same aggregate outcomes as a span-of-control model. Fixed costs in the heterogeneous-firm model are entrepreneurs' forgone wage in the span-of-control model.




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