全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Testing the Melitz Model of Trade: An Application to U.S. Motion Picture Exports

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w14461
来源ID	Working Paper 14461
	Testing the Melitz Model of Trade: An Application to U.S. Motion Picture Exports
	Gordon H. Hanson; Chong Xiang
发表日期	2008-10-30
出版年	2008
语种	英语
摘要	In this paper, we develop a simple empirical method to test two alternative versions of the Melitz (2003) model, one with global fixed export costs and one with bilateral fixed export costs. With global costs, import sales per product variety (relative to domestic sales per variety) are decreasing in variable trade barriers, as a result of adjustment occurring along the intensive margin of trade. With bilateral costs, imports per product variety are increasing in fixed trade costs, due to adjustment occurring along the extensive margin. We apply our approach to data on imports of U.S. motion pictures in 46 countries over 1995-2006. Imports per product variety are decreasing in geographic distance, linguistic distance, and other measures of trade costs, consistent with adjustment to these costs occurring along the intensive margin. There is relatively little variation in the number of U.S. movies that countries import but wide variation in the box-office revenues per movie. The data thus appear to reject the bilateral-fixed-export-cost model in favor of the global-fixed-export-cost model.
主题	International Economics ; Trade ; International Factor Mobility
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w14461
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/572136
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gordon H. Hanson,Chong Xiang. Testing the Melitz Model of Trade: An Application to U.S. Motion Picture Exports. 2008.

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