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Productivity Spillovers, Terms of Trade and the "Home Market Effect"

Corsetti, Giancarlo - 2005

This paper analyzes the welfare implications of international spillovers related to productivity gains, changes in market size, or government spending. We introduce trade costs and endogenous varieties in a two-country general-equilibrium model with monopolistic competition, drawing a...

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Beyond Competitive Devaluations : The Monetary Dimensions of Comparative Advantage

Bergin, Paul R. - 2019

Motivated by the long-standing debate on the pros and cons of competitive devaluation, we propose a new perspective on how monetary and exchange rate policies can contribute to a country's international competitiveness. We refocus the analysis on the implications of monetary stabilization for a...

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Shipping the Good Apples Out? An Empirical Confirmation of the Alchian-Allen Conjecture

Hummels, David - 2002

We model demand for quality differentiated goods to derive a relationship between trade costs and the quality composition of trade. Detailed data on traded goods' prices, quantities and shipping costs for many importers and exporters are used to test these predictions. These data provide a...

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Technology and Geography in the Second Industrial Revolution : New Evidence from the Margins of Trade

Huberman, Michael - 2015

illustrate these claims. In line with new trade theory, the effect of trade on productivity was mediated by sector-level firm … heterogeneity and product differentiation. In new technology sectors, like tramways, the high degree of firm heterogeneity amplified … of firm uniformity muted the effect of trade. Into the twentieth century, old staples trumped new technology sectors, per …

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Measuring the Gains from Trade under Monopolistic Competition

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2009

Three sources of gains from trade under monopolistic competition are: (i) new import varieties available to consumers; (ii) enhanced efficiency as more productive firms begin exporting and less productive firms exit; (iii) reduced markups charged by firms due to import competition. The first...

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Inequality and Trade

Mitra, Devashish - 2003

inequality. Our theory formalizes as well as modifies Linder's conjecture about the relationship between intraindustry trade and …

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Were Trade and Factor Mobility Substitutes in History?

Collins, William J. - 1997

Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question: Are trade and factor flows …

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The Tip of the Iceberg : A Quantitative Framework for Estimating Trade Costs

Irarrazabal, Alfonso - 2013

Casual empiricism suggests that additive trade costs, such as quotas, per-unit tariffs, and, in part, transportation costs, are prevalent. In spite of this, we have no broad and systematic evidence of the magnitude of these costs. We develop a new empirical framework for estimating additive...

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Income Distribution, Product Quality, and International Trade

Fajgelbaum, Pablo D. - 2009

We develop a framework for studying trade in vertically and horizontally differentiated products. In our model, consumers with heterogeneous incomes and tastes purchase a homogeneous good as well as making a discrete choice of quality and variety of a differentiated product. The distribution of...

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Varieties and the Transfer Problem : The Extensive Margin of Current Account Adjustment

Corsetti, Giancarlo - 2008

Most analyses of the macroeconomic adjustment required to correct global imbalances ignore net exports of new varieties of goods and services and do not account for firms' entry in the product market. In this paper we revisit the macroeconomics of trade adjustment in the context of the classic...

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