异质性企业贸易理论的最新进展

21世纪初诞生的异质性企业贸易理论是新新贸易理论的一个分支,以异质性企业利润最大化的决策作为微观基础,解释了企业层面的贸易现象。文章从四个方面对异质性企业贸易理论进行了文献综述:理论模型诞生之前的经验研究、理论模型的诞生、理论模型的拓展与经验研究的检验、国内学者的研究成果。文章涵盖了该领域2008年以来的最新研究进展,总结了现有文献的不足,并提出了未来的研究方向。

A Review of the Heterogeneous-firm Trade Theory

As a branch of the new new trade theory,the heterogeneous-firm trade theory addresses some plant-level trade phenomena,especially the differences between trading and non-trading firms.This paper serves as a review of this theory.It introduces the empirical facts as challenges to old and new trade theories,the benchmark models and the extensions as well as some empirical tests.Furthermore,it points out the defects of current literatures and puts forward some future prospects.