Nber Working Paper Series General Equilibrium Analysis of the Eaton-kortum Model of International Trade
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We thank Jonathan Eaton, Tim Kehoe, Sam Kortum, Ellen McGrattan, Sergey Mityakov, Casey Mulligan, John Romalis, Kim Ruhl, Ed Prescott, Phil Reny, Rob Shimer, Nancy Stokey, Chad Syverson, Ivan Werning, participants in the December, 2003, conference at Torcuato di Tella and seminar participants at Cornell, Boston University, Brown, Harvard, Minnesota and Chicago for helpful discussions. Constantino Hevia, Natalia Kovrijnykh, and Oleksiy Kryvtsov provided many suggestions and able assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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