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prices, productivity levels and markups as functions of openness to trade at a sectoral level. The theory lends itself … evidence that trade openness exerts a competitive effect, with prices and markups falling and productivity rising. Consistent …We present, extend and estimate a model of international trade with firm heterogeneity in the tradition of Melitz (2003 …
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prices, productivity levels and markups as functions of openness to trade at a sectoral level. The theory lends itself … evidence that trade openness exerts a competitive effect, with prices and markups falling and productivity rising. Consistent …We present, extend and estimate a model of international trade with firm heterogeneity in the tradition of Melitz (2003 …
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.S.-Mexican relative prices and find that it is nearly an order of magnitude larger than for U.S.-Canadian prices. However, during a very … very slightly. We also present evidence that the border effect in U.S.-Mexican prices is not primarily due to the border … effect in U.S.-Mexican wages. Finally, using the prices of 276 highly dis-aggregated goods and services, we estimate the …
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observed changes from 2020 (September) in unemployment, trade, oil prices, and production to inform our model. Estimated gross … lockdowns lead to a decrease in global GDP of 7.2 per cent, and a decrease in grain prices of 9 per cent. These changes lead to …
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The paper develops a simple three-sector model of a developing country with nominal wage rigidity, in which one sector is thought of as the primary sector and the other two are sectors in which the country can diversify. The paper then analyzes the relationship between the market structure of...
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International capital flows from rich to poor countries can be regarded as either too low (the Lucas paradox in a one-sector model) or too high (when compared with the logic of factor price equalization in a two-sector model). To resolve the paradoxes, we introduce a non-neoclassical model which...
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prices, productivity levels and markups as functions of openness to trade at a sectoral level. The theory lends itself … evidence that trade openness exerts a competitive effect, with prices and markups falling and productivity rising. Consistent …We present, extend and estimate a model of international trade with firm heterogeneity in the tradition of Melitz (2003 …
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agricultural trade and its protection of agriculture. In turn, the structure of a country's agricultural trade is a function of its … political strength of farmers and of the structure of its agricultural trade. These relationships are estimated in a …
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This paper investigates the impact of the distribution sector on the real exchange rate, controlling for the Balassa-Samuelson effect, as well as other macro variables. Long-run coefficients are estimated using a panel dynamic OLS estimator. The main result is that an increase in the...
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