Markups, Quality, and Trade Costs /

We investigate theoretically and empirically how exporters adjust their markups across destinations depending on bilateral distance, tariffs, and the quality of their exports. Under the assumption that trade costs are both ad valorem and per unit, our model predicts that markups rise with distance a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chen, Natalie
Other Authors: Juvenal, Luciana
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/036
Online Access:Full text available on IMF