From micro to macro: Demand, supply, and heterogeneity in the trade elasticity

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serval:BIB_D5336A255612
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
From micro to macro: Demand, supply, and heterogeneity in the trade elasticity
Périodique
Journal of International Economics
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Bas M., Mayer T., Thoenig M.
ISSN
0022-1996
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
09/2017
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
108
Pages
1-19
Langue
anglais
Résumé
Models of heterogeneous firms with selection into export market participation generically exhibit aggregate trade elasticities that vary across country-pairs. Only when heterogeneity is assumed Pareto-distributed do all elasticities collapse into a unique elasticity, estimable with a gravity equation. This paper provides a theory-consistent methodology for quantifying country-pair specific aggregate elasticities when moving away from Pareto, i.e. when gravity does not hold. Combining two firm-level customs datasets for which we observe French and Chinese individual sales on the same destination market over the 2000-2006 period, we are able to estimate all the components of the bilateral aggregate elasticity: i) the demand-side parameter that governs the intensive margin and ii) the supply side parameters that drive the extensive margin. These components are then used to calculate theoretical predictions of bilateral aggregate elasticities over the whole set of destinations, and how those elasticities decompose into different margins. Our predictions fit well with econometric estimates, supporting our view that micro-data is a key element in the quantification of aggregate trade elasticities.
Mots-clé
trade elasticity, firm-level data, heterogeneity, gravity, Pareto, log-normal, Economics and Econometrics, Finance
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