The Sources and Magnitudes of Switzerland’s Gains from Trade

The Sources and Magnitudes of Switzerland’s Gains from Trade

Summary This paper uses the modern workhorse model of quantitative trade theory (Eaton and Kortum, 2002) as a measurement tool to quantify Switzerland’s gains from trade. I find that individual trading partners matter surprisingly little for Switzerland’s welfare because of reallocation effects: if...

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Main Author: Christian Hepenstrick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2016-01-01
Series:Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics
Subjects:
Gains from trade
Switzerland
development accounting
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03399420

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