Export Variety and Country Productivity : Estimating the Monopolistic Competition Model with Endogenous Productivity

This paper provides evidence on the monopolistic competition model with heterogeneous firms and endogenous productivity. We show that this model has a well-defined GDP function where relative export variety enters positively, and estimate this function over 48 countries from 1980 to 2000. Average ex...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Feenstra, Robert, Kee, Hiau Looi
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5721