Search Results - subject:"import price elasticity"

Re-estimating International Elasticity of Substitution - A Preliminary Study of Quality Effect on Trade

Thanagopal, Thannaletchimy; Mouel, Pierre Le; … - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences 2014 (2014) 1, pp. 64-77

Trade in quality has become a dominant economic phenomenon in Europe since the 1990s (Fontagné, Freudenberg, Peridy, 1998). Increasingly, European countries trade in similar products which vary in quality and variety, making quality an important determinant of trade within these countries. This...

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Estimating import price elasticity while controlling for quality

Thanagopal, Thannaletchimy - HAL - 2011

Import price elasticity tends to be under-estimated due to the omission of quality effects. This dissertation aims to … fill this gap by analyzing 1) how quality effects affect the estimation of import price elasticity, 2) the impact of … import price elasticity as well as the policy implications of quality innovation on trade. In order to adjust for quality …

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Has the Euro Increased International Price Elasticities?

Holtemöller, Oliver; Zeddies, Götz - 2010

The introduction of the Euro has been accompanied by the hope that intra-EMU trade would increase and that prices would converge due to increased elasticities of international substitution. This paper contributes to the literature on the Euro's effects on international trade by analyzing price...

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Has the Euro Increased International Price Elasticities?

Holtemöller, Oliver; Zeddies, Götz - Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH) - 2010

This paper analyzes the role of common data problems when identifying structural breaks in small samples. Most notably, we survey small sample properties of the most commonly applied endogenous break tests developed by Brown, Durbin, and Evans (1975) and Zeileis (2004), Nyblom (1989) and Hansen...

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