The Sources and Magnitudes of Switzerland’s Gains from Trade

Summary This paper uses the modern workhorse model of quantitative trade theory (Eaton and Kortum, 2002) as a measurement tool to quantify Switzerland’s gains from trade. I find that individual trading partners matter surprisingly little for Switzerland’s welfare because of reallocation effects: if...

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Main Author: Christian Hepenstrick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2016-01-01
Series:Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03399420

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