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Income distribution and unequal gains from trade

This paper studies welfare gains from trade in a tractable model with a nonhomothetic preference over product quality. We show that the welfare changes due to trade shocks are unequal across consumers and derive a parsimonious formula to measure these welfare changes as in Arkolakis et al. (2012, Am...

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Main Authors: Bo Gao, Bin Qiu
Format: Default Article
Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/19416476.v1
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