Open this publication in new window or tab >>2007 (English)In: International Journal of Applied Economics, ISSN 1548-0003, Vol. 4, no 1, p. 40-59Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Consumer studies have a long tradition of incorporating non-homothetic preferences in their models, whereas this has been very uncommon in studies of international trade. We use a model from Mitra and Trindade (2005) to set up a gravity model in which we include income distribution measures as explanatory variables for the exporting as well as for the importing countries. Our results indicate that non-homothetic preferences significantly affect both exports and imports.
Keywords
International trade, income distribution, hon-homothetic preferences
National Category
Economics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-3136 (URN)
2007-08-142007-08-14Bibliographically approved