On the Measurement of Product Variety in Trade

On the Measurement of Product Variety in Trade

Product variety plays an important role in the theoretical work on monopolistic competition and trade, and recent empirical work has begun to quantify this for aggregate and disaggregate import demands. The authors discuss the measurement of produc...

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Main Authors: Feenstra, Robert, Looi Kee, Hiau
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: 2013
Subjects:
TRADE
MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION
PRODUCT CHOICE
IMPORT PRICES
EXPORT DIVERSIFICATION
PRODUCTIVITY
GLOBAL ECONOMY COST FUNCTIONS
COUNTRY PRODUCTIVITY
COUNTRY PRODUCTIVITY DIFFERENCES
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
DOMESTIC PRICE
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC REVIEW
ELASTICITY
ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION
EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
EQUILIBRIUM
EXPORT VARIETY
EXPORTS
GDP
IMPORTS
INDEX NUMBERS
INPUT PRICES
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
PERFECT COMPETITION
PRODUCTION FUNCTION
PRODUCTIVITY DIFFERENCES
TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY
TOTAL OUTPUT
VALUE OF OUTPUT
VARIETY
WORLD ECONOMY
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/02/3909115/measurement-product-variety-trade
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14309

Internet

http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/02/3909115/measurement-product-variety-trade
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14309

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