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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462699503321

Autore

Feenstra Robert C.

Titolo

Product variety and the gains from international trade / / Robert C. Feenstra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

0-262-28937-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (144 p.)

Collana

Zeuthen Lecture Book Series

Disciplina

382.01/5195

Soggetti

International trade - Econometric models

Imports - Econometric models

Exports - Econometric models

Commercial products - Econometric models

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Consumer Benefits from Import Variety; 3 Producer Benefits from Export Variety; 4 The Extensive Margin of Trade and Country Productivity; 5 Product Variety and the Measurement of Real GDP; 6 Conclusions; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Feenstra considers the consumer benefits from having access to new import varieties of differentiated products, and examines a recent method to estimate the elasticity of substitution (the extent of differentiation across products) and to use that information to construct the gains from import variety.