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Endogenous Tradability andMacroeconomic Implications

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  • Paul Bergin
  • Reuven Glick

    (Department of Economics, University of California Davis)

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This paper advocates a new way of thinking about goods trade in an open economy macromodel. It develops a simple method for analyzing trade costs that are heterogeneous among acontinuum of goods, and it explores how these costs determine the endogenous decision by aseller of whether to trade a good internationally. This way of thinking offers new insightsinto international market integration and the behavior of international relative prices. As oneexample, it provides a natural explanation for a prominent and controversial puzzle ininternational macroeconomics regarding the surprisingly low degree of volatility in therelative price of nontraded goods. Because tradedness is an endogenous decision, the good onthe margin forms a link holding together the prices of traded and nontraded goods. The papergoes on to find that endogenizing trade has implications for other basic macroeconomicissues.

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  • Paul Bergin & Reuven Glick, 2005. "Endogenous Tradability andMacroeconomic Implications," Working Papers 277, University of California, Davis, Department of Economics.
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