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We study the implications for international relative prices of a simple Ricardian model of international trade with … trade costs and imperfect competition with variable markups are needed to account for pricing-to-market at the firm and … aggregate levels. We also show that international trade costs are essential, but pricing-to-market is not, to account for a high …
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Fixed transaction costs and delivery lags are important costs of international trade. These costs lead firms to import … to a sudden, large increase in the relative price of imported goods creates a short-term trade implosion, an immediate …
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Between 1992 and 2002, the Japanese Import Price Index registered a decline of almost 9 percent and Japan entered a period of deflation. We show that much of the correlation between import prices and domestic prices was due to formula biases. Had the IPI been computed using a pure Laspeyres...
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general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and non-homothetic consumer preferences that …
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This paper is the first attempt to structurally estimate the impact of globalization on markups, and the effect of changing markups on welfare, in a monopolistic competition model. To achieve this, we work with a class of preferences that allow for endogenous markups and firm entry and exit that...
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-moment shocks lead to increases in trade relative to GDP in recessions. Empirically, using detailed product-level data in the motor …
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This article reviews the state of the international trade literature on multinational firms. This literature addresses … contract with local producers or distributors? We organize our exposition of the trade literature on multinational firms around …
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, intermediate goods, and multiple factors of production--affect the magnitude of the gains from trade liberalization. We conclude by …
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We introduce firm and worker heterogeneity into a model of innovation-driven endogenous growth. Individuals who differ in ability sort into either a research sector or a manufacturing sector that produces differentiated goods. Each research project generates a new variety of the differentiated...
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distributional effects of trade reforms and exchange rate movements. …
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