International trade with indirect additivity

P Bertoletti, F Etro, I Simonovska - American Economic Journal …, 2018 - aeaweb.org
We develop a general equilibrium model of trade that features “indirectly additive”
preferences and heterogeneous firms. Monopolistic competition generates markups that are …

A unified approach to estimating demand and welfare

SJ Redding, DE Weinstein - 2016 - papers.ssrn.com
The measurement of price changes, economic welfare, and demand parameters is currently
based on three disjoint approaches: macroeconomic models derived from time-invariant …

Price elasticities and demand-side real rigidities in micro data and in macro models

GW Beck, SM Lein - Journal of Monetary Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
High degrees of demand-side real rigidities are able to generate the large monetary non-
neutrality found in aggregate data. This paper provides micro-based evidence on the key …

Estimating unequal gains across US consumers with supplier trade data

C Hottman, R Monarch - International Finance Discussion Paper, 2018 - papers.ssrn.com
Using supplier-level trade data, we estimate the effect on consumer welfare from changes in
US imports both in the aggregate and for different household income groups from 1998 to …

Generalized separability and integrability: Consumer demand with a price aggregator

T Fally - Journal of Economic Theory, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper examines demand systems where the demand for a good depends on other
prices only through a common price aggregator (a scalar function of all prices). We refer to …

On quantitative spatial economic models

K Behrens, Y Murata - Journal of Urban Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
We show that spatial equilibrium conditions in workhorse models of quantitative spatial
economics (QSE) can be generated by the McFadden (1974) model together with the …

Monopolistic competition, as you like it

P Bertoletti, F Etro - Economic Inquiry, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We explore monopolistic competition with asymmetric preferences over a variety of goods
provided by heterogeneous firms, and compute equilibria (approximating Cournot and …

[PDF][PDF] Misallocations in Monopsonistic Labor Markets

F Trottner - 2022 - trottner.me
When is monopsonistic competition between firms a source of aggregate misallocations? To
study this question, I develop a heterogeneous firm model featuring endogenously variable …

A Global Perspective on the Incidence of Monopoly Distortions

S Ding, A Lashkaripour, V Lugovskyy - 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
We develop a method to measure the incidence of monopolistic markup distortions in the
global economy. Using semi-parametric formulas, we measure how trade modifies the …

[HTML][HTML] Logit, CES, and rational inattention

A Matveenko - Economics Letters, 2020 - Elsevier
We study the fundamental links between two popular approaches to consumer choice: the
multinomial logit model of individual discrete choice and the CES utility function, which …