Trade Costs, Market Integration, and Macroeconomic Volatility /

This paper examines the effects of trade costs on macroeconomic volatility. We first construct a dynamic, two-country general equilibrium model, where the degree of market integration depends directly on trade costs (transport costs, tariffs, et cetera). The model is a extension of Obstfeld and Rogo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Naknoi, Kanda
Other Authors: Brunner, Allan
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2003.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2003/054
Online Access:Full text available on IMF