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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Main Author: Feenstra, Robert C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (133 pages) : illustrations
ISBN:0262289377
9780262289375
9780262289948
0262289946
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262062800.001.0001