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Essays on international trade and development

Heid, Benedikt - 2014

This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...

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International outsourcing under monopolistic competition : winners and losers

Do, Viet (contributor); Long, Ngo Van (contributor) - 2007

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Chapter 4. Trade Theory with Numbers: Quantifying the Consequences of Globalization

Costinot, Arnaud; Rodríguez-Clare, Andrés - In: Handbook of international economics : Volume 4, (pp. 197-261). 2014

We review a recent body of theoretical work that aims to put numbers on the consequences of globalization. A unifying theme of our survey is methodological. We rely on gravity models and demonstrate how they can be used for counterfactual analysis. We highlight how various economic...

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Testing competing world trade models against the facts of world trade

Minford, Patrick; Xu, Yongdeng; Dong, Xue - 2021

We carry out an indirect inference test of two versions of a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of world trade …. One of these, the ‘classical’ model,is well-known as the Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model of world trade, in which … countries trade homogeneous products in world markets and produce according to their comparative advantage as determined by …

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Gains from Trade and Efficiency Under Monopolistic Competition : A Variable Elasticity Case

Behrens, Kristian - 2006

We present a general equilibrium model of monopolistic competition with variable demand elasticities and investigate the impact of free trade on welfare and efficiency. First, contrary to the constant elasticity case, in which all gains from trade are due to increasing product diversity, our...

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Icebergs versus tariffs : a quantitative perspective on the gains from trade ; conference paper

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Jung, Benjamin; Larch, Mario - 2013

We derive a simple equation for the welfare gains from trade when tariffs are liberalized or iceberg trade costs fall. Covering various one-sector trade models that may or may not feature extensive margins and imperfect competition, we generalize the analysis of Arkolakis, Costinot and...

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Heterogeneous firms, trade, and economic policy : insights from a simple two-sector model

Pflüger, Michael; Russek, Stephan - 2011

The robust empirical finding that exporting firms are systematically different from firms that merely serve domestic consumers has inspired the development of a new brand of trade theory, the theory of heterogeneous firms and trade. The establishment of a canonical model due to Melitz (2003) has...

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Global gains from trade liberalization

Fan, Haichao; Lai, Edwin L.-C.; Qi, Han - 2012 - This draft: March 31, 2012

What has been the overall global welfare impact of the accession to the World Trade Organization of a large country …

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Five essays on international trade, factor flows, and the gains from globalization

Heiland, Inga - 2017

This volume was prepared by Inga Heiland while she was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in July 2016 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It comprises five chapters addressing one or more aspects of international trade and...

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Distance, Globalization, and International Trade

Borchert, Ingo - 2017

For a long time globalization could be seen everywhere but in gravity estimates. We offer evidence how globalization affects manufacturing trade over the period 1986-2006 and show that, on average, the effect of distance has fallen whereas the effects of proximity and regional trade agreements...

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