When Pareto meets Melitz: the inapplicability of the Melitz-Pareto model for Chinese firms
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Keywords
Melitz-Pareto model; Pareto distribution; productivity heterogeneity; export;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
- F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2012-01-03 (Business Economics)
- NEP-EFF-2012-01-03 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-TRA-2012-01-03 (Transition Economics)
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