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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Saito, Mika
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2004.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2004/022
Online Access:Full text available on IMF