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Feenstra Robert C |
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Titolo |
Product variety and the gains from international trade / / Robert C. Feenstra |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (144 p.) |
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Collana |
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Zeuthen Lecture Book Series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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International trade - Econometric models |
Imports - Econometric models |
Exports - Econometric models |
Commercial products - Econometric models |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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