Armington Elasticities in Intermediate Inputs Trade : A Problem in Using Multilateral Trade Data /

This paper finds that the estimates of Armington elasticities (the elasticity of substitution between groups of products identified by country of origin) obtained from multilateral trade data can differ from those obtained from bilateral trade data. In particular, the former tends to be higher than...

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Huvudupphovsman: Saito, Mika
Materialtyp: Tidskrift
Språk:English
Publicerad: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2004.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2004/022
Länkar:Full text available on IMF
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