Fading Choice: Transport Costs and Variety in Consumer Goods
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- Gunning, Jan Willem & Krishnan, Pramila & Mengistu, Andualem Telaye, 2018. "Fading Choice: Transport Costs and Variety in Consumer Goods," CEPR Discussion Papers 12910, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Jan Willem Gunning & Pramila Krishnan & Andualem T Mengistu, 2018. "Fading Choice: Transport Costs and Variety in Consumer Goods," CSAE Working Paper Series 2018-05, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
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- F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
- R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2018-12-10 (Industrial Competition)
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