| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w15329 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 15329 |
| Income Distribution, Product Quality, and International Trade | |
| Pablo D. Fajgelbaum; Gene M. Grossman; Elhanan Helpman | |
| 发表日期 | 2009-09-10 |
| 出版年 | 2009 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We develop a framework for studying trade in vertically and horizontally differentiated products. In our model, consumers with heterogeneous incomes and tastes purchase a homogeneous good as well as making a discrete choice of quality and variety of a differentiated product. The distribution of preferences in the population generates a nested logit demand structure. These demands are such that the fraction of consumers who buy a higher-quality product rises with income. We use the model to study the pattern of trade between countries that differ in size and income distributions but are otherwise identical. Trade―which is driven primarily by demand factors―derives from "home market effects" in the presence of transport costs. The model helps to explain why richer countries export higher-quality goods. It provides a tractable tool for studying the welfare consequences of trade, transport costs, and trade policy for different income groups in an economy. |
| 主题 | International Economics ; Trade |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w15329 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/573004 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Pablo D. Fajgelbaum,Gene M. Grossman,Elhanan Helpman. Income Distribution, Product Quality, and International Trade. 2009. |
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| w15329.pdf（439KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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