Product variety and the gains from international trade /
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 varie...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (133 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 0262289377 9780262289375 9780262289948 0262289946 |
| DOI: | 10.7551/mitpress/9780262062800.001.0001 |