Essays in international economics and industrial organization

Tarasenko, Andrii

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URN:	urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-706140
Document Type:	Doctoral dissertation
Year of publication:	2025
Place of publication:	Mannheim
University:	Universität Mannheim
Evaluator:	Schutz, Nicolas
Date of oral examination:	2025
Publication language:	English
Institution:	School of Law and Economics > VWL, Empirische Ökonomik (Schutz 2019-) Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences - CDSE (Economics)
License:	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Subject:	330 Economics
Keywords (English):	international trade , international economics , industrial organization , global value chains
Abstract:	This dissertation sheds light on the effects of trade policy. Chapter 1 provides theoretical analysis of firm behavior in a model in which firms make geographical importing decisions under oligopolistic competition. In Chapter 2, I calibrate the model from Chapter 1 to the Ukrainian production dataset and use the calibrated model to evaluate the welfare effects of input trade liberalization that happened during the accession of Ukraine to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2008. In Chapter 3, I study the aggregate and distributional effects of unilateral trade liberalization for a small open economy in which firms face credit constraints and set variable markups.