American Economic Journal:
Microeconomics
ISSN 1945-7669 (Print) | ISSN 1945-7685 (Online)
International Trade with Indirect Additivity
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
vol. 10,
no. 2, May 2018
(pp. 1–57)
Abstract
We develop a general equilibrium model of trade that features "indirectly additive" preferences and heterogeneous firms. Monopolistic competition generates markups that are increasing in firm productivity and in destination country per capita income, but independent from destination population, as documented empirically. The gains from trade liberalization are lower than in models based on CES preferences, and the difference is governed by the average pass-through. When we calibrate the model so as to match observed pricing-to-market in micro-data, it generates welfare gains that are substantially lower than those predicted by commonly employed frameworks.Citation
Bertoletti, Paolo, Federico Etro, and Ina Simonovska. 2018. "International Trade with Indirect Additivity." American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 10 (2): 1–57. DOI: 10.1257/mic.20160382Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- D24 Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
- D43 Market Structure, Pricing, and Design: Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
- F12 Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
- L13 Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
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