Browsing La Follette Working Papers by Author "Kamata, Isao"
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Comparative Advantage, Firm Heterogeneity, and Selection of Exporters
Kamata, Isao (2010-02)This investigation explores how a country's fraction of exporting domestic firms differs across industries, depending on a country's comparative advantage. It shows that the correlation between the exporter fractions and ... -
Explaining Export Varieties: the Role of Comparative Advantage
Kamata, Isao (2010-07)This study investigates whether the variety of products in a country's exports is explained by the country's comparative advantage. The author's model predicts greater export variety in industries that intensively use a ... -
Revisiting the Revisited: An Alternative Test of the Monopolistic Competition Model of International Trade
Kamata, Isao (2010-02)This paper proposes an alternative test of the monopolistic competition model of international trade that has an implication for the relationship between the volume of trade and similarity among trading countries in the ...