Estimating Trade Elasticities

Jaime Marquez

ISBN 10: 1402071590 / ISBN 13: 9781402071591

Edité par Springer US, Springer US, 2002

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - One cannot exaggerate the importance of estimating how international trade responds to changes in income and prices. But there is a tension between whether one should use models that fit the data but that contradict certain aspects of the underlying theory or models that fit the theory but contradict certain aspects of the data. The essays in Estimating Trade Elasticities book offer one practical approach to deal with this tension. The analysis starts with the practical implications of optimising behaviour for estimation and it follows with a re-examination of the puzzling income elasticity for US imports that three decades of studies have not resolved. The analysis then turns to the study of the role of income and prices in determining the expansion in Asian trade, a study largely neglected in fifty years of research. With the new estimates of trade elasticities, the book examines how they assist in restoring the consistency between elasticity estimates and the world trade identity.

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• Titre: Estimating Trade Elasticities
• Éditeur: Springer US, Springer US
• Date de parution: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1402071590
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781402071591
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 241 L x 160 H x 13 P (en millimètres) 241 millimètres de largeur par 160 millimètres de hauteur par 13 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 401 grammes

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Synopsis

One cannot exaggerate the importance of estimating how international trade responds to changes in income and prices. But there is a tension between whether one should use models that fit the data but that contradict certain aspects of the underlying theory or models that fit the theory but contradict certain aspects of the data. The essays in Estimating Trade Elasticities book offer one practical approach to deal with this tension. The analysis starts with the practical implications of optimising behaviour for estimation and it follows with a re-examination of the puzzling income elasticity for US imports that three decades of studies have not resolved. The analysis then turns to the study of the role of income and prices in determining the expansion in Asian trade, a study largely neglected in fifty years of research. With the new estimates of trade elasticities, the book examines how they assist in restoring the consistency between elasticity estimates and the world trade identity.

À propos de l?auteur

Jaime Marquez received his PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983. Since then, he has been a staff economist of the Federal Reserve Board. He also serves as a professorial lecturer at the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University.