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Trade Costs and the Open Macroeconomy

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  • Novy, Dennis

    (University of Warwick)

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Trade costs are known to be a major obstacle to international economic integration. Following the approach of New Open Economy Macroeconomics, this paper explores the effects of international trade costs in a micro-founded general equilibrium model that also allows for pricing to market. Trade costs are shown to create an endogenous home bias in consumption and reduce cross-country consumption correlations. In addition, trade costs magnify exchange rate volatility in response to monetary shocks and typically turn a monetary expansion into a beggar-thy-neighbor policy. It is striking that trade costs generally lead to these results both under producer and local currency pricing.

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Paper provided by University of Warwick, Department of Economics in its series The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) with number 778.

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Length: 36 pages
Date of creation: 2006
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Handle: RePEc:wrk:warwec:778

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Keywords: Trade Costs ; New Open Economy Macroeconomics ; Pricing to Market ; Exchange Rates ; Consumption Correlations;

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