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Some surprising facts about the concentration of trade across commodities and trading partners

Panagariya, Arvind and Bagaria, Nitika (2013) Some surprising facts about the concentration of trade across commodities and trading partners. World Economy, 36 (9). pp. 1165-1186. ISSN 0378-5920

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Identification Number: 10.1111/twec.12060

Abstract

The present paper documents unexplained concentration in trade. Bernard et al. (Producer Dynamics: New Evidence from Micro Data, 2009, University of Chicago Press) have documented concentration at the level of the firm and in exports. Taking a step forward, we document trade volume concentration at the level of nations and in both exports and imports. Firm level concentration has been relatively easy to explain in terms of models of heterogeneous-firm models with entry costs in both the domestic and foreign markets. But as we shall see, the concentration at the level of the nation, especially in imports if not exports, turns out to be far more difficult to explain.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(IS...
Additional Information: © 2013 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Divisions: Economics
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HF Commerce
Date Deposited: 15 Mar 2013 10:54
Last Modified: 06 Jan 2024 08:24
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/49167

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