Together at last: trade costs, demand structure, and welfare

We show that relaxing the assumption of CES preferences in monopolistic competition has surprising implications when trade is restricted. Integrated and segmented markets behave differently, the latter typically exhibiting reciprocal dumping. Globalization and lower trade costs have different effe...

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Main Authors: Neary, P, Mrazova, M
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2014