Quantitative Trade Models: Developments and Challenges / Timothy J. Kehoe, Pau S. Pujolas, Jack Rossbach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kehoe, Timothy J.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Pujolas, Pau S.

Rossbach, Jack.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w22706.

NBER working paper series no. w22706

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Quantitative Trade Models

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2016.

Summary:

Applied general equilibrium (AGE) models, which feature multiple countries, multiple industries, and input-output linkages across industries, have been the dominant tool for evaluating the impact of trade reforms since the 1980s. We review how these models are used to perform policy analysis and document their shortcomings in predicting the industry-level effects of past trade reforms. We argue that, to improve their performance, AGE models need to incorporate product-level data on bilateral trade relations by industry and better model how trade reforms lower bilateral trade costs. We use the least traded products methodology of Kehoe et al. (2015) to provide guidance on how improvements can be made. We provide further suggestions on how AGE models can incorporate recent advances in quantitative trade theory to improve their predictive ability and better quantify the gains from trade liberalization.

Notes:

Print version record

September 2016.