A Balls-and-Bins Model of Trade

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Exporting under trade policy uncertainty: Theory and evidence (2014, background): “Armenter and Koren (2010) and Santos Silva et al.”
Wealth Heterogeneity and the Income Elasticity of Migration (2017, methodology): “Adapting the model in Armenter and Koren (2014) developed for trade data, I compare the empirical incidence of zeros with that arising from a model in which migrants (balls) are drawn randomly from villages (bins) with probability proportional to village population.”
Temporary trade and heterogeneous firms (2012, background): “13Armenter and Koren (2010) notes that in 2005 the biggest US shipments categories included aircraft ($42 million), spacecraft ($5 million), tanker ships ($15 million) and floating drilling platforms ($5 million).”
Multi-Product Firms and Product Quality (2017, background): “See Armenter and Koren (2014), Eaton et al. (2011), and Head et al. (2017) for related work on the stability of destination and product hierarchies across firms and cities.”
How Important Is the New Goods Margin in International Trade? (2013, unknown): “Armenter and Koren (2010) discuss the nonuniform distribution of trade categories in detail and demonstrate that this feature can affect the interpretation of trade data, particularly when a researcher is interested in goods with zero trade.”