Intermediation and Economic Integration

The theory of international trade has paid scant attention to market institutions. Neither neoclassical theory nor new trade models typically specify the process by which supply and demand meet. Yet in the real world, intermediaries play a central role in materializing the gains from exchange o...

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Main Authors: Antras, Pol, Costinot, Arnaud
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Economic Association 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61352
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5503-297X
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spelling mit-1721.1/613522022-10-01T01:33:04Z Intermediation and Economic Integration Antras, Pol Costinot, Arnaud Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics Costinot, Arnaud Costinot, Arnaud The theory of international trade has paid scant attention to market institutions. Neither neoclassical theory nor new trade models typically specify the process by which supply and demand meet. Yet in the real world, intermediaries play a central role in materializing the gains from exchange outlined by standard trade theories. 2011-02-28T18:02:12Z 2011-02-28T18:02:12Z 2010-05 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0002-8282 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61352 Antrás, Pol, and Arnaud Costinot. 2010. "Intermediation and Economic Integration." American Economic Review, 100(2): 424–28. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5503-297X en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.100.2.424 American Economic Review Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf American Economic Association MIT web domain
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