Product Variety and the Gains from International Trade

by Robert C. Feenstra and University Robert C Feenstra

An examination of the methods to measure the product variety of imports and the gains from trade due to product variety.

The application of the monopolistic competition model to international trade by Elhanan Helpman, Paul Krugman, and Kelvin Lancaster was one of the great achievements of international trade theory in the 1970s and 1980s. Monopolistic competition models have required new empirical methods to implement their theoretical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262062801
• ISBN13: 9780262062800
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 133 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher