Blas, Beatriz de; Russ, Katheryn Niles - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas - 2010
We show that an ostensibly disparate set of stylized facts regarding firm pricing behavior can arise in a Ricardian model with Bertrand competition. Generalizing the Bernard, Eaton, Jenson, and Kortum (2003) model allows firms' markups over marginal cost to fall under trade liberalization, but...