Income Differences and Prices of Tradables: Insights from an Online Retailer

By Ina Simonovska. 2015

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Knocking on Tax Haven’s Door: Multinational Firms and Transfer Pricing (2017, background): “Since distribution costs are an increasing function of foreign wages, we expect fob prices to increase with GDP per capita as found by Simonovska (2010).”
Restoring the Product Variety and Pro-Competitive Gains from Trade with Heterogeneous Firms and Bounded Productivity (2014, background): “…utility 6 Behrens and Murata (2007, 2012) use exponential functions and the latter paper includes pro-competitive effects, while Saure (2012) and Simonovska (2015) use a logarithmic function with displaced origin. function has been introduced by Bertoletti, Etro and Simonovska (2016), who find…”
Trade, Multinational Production, and the Gains from Openness (2013, unknown): “See Bernard et al. ð2003Þ, Donaldson ð2010Þ, Simonovska ð2010Þ, Eaton et al. ð2011Þ, and Burstein and Vogel ð2012Þ. trade and multinational production 295 relations between magnitudes in the model and data for bilateral trade and MP shares across country pairs, as well as correlations for aggregate…”
Not So Demanding: Demand Structure and Firm Behavior (2017, unknown): “(Broda and Weinstein (2006), Soderbery (2015) and Benkovskis and Wörz (2014) estimate median elasticities of demand for imports of 3.7 or lower.)”
Engel's Law in the Global Economy: Demand‐Induced Patterns of Structural Change, Innovation, and Trade (2019, unknown): “(2012), Simonovska (2015), Foellmi, Hepenstrick, and Zweimueller (2018), or others.”
Export Destinations and Input Prices (2014, methodology): “First, firms may charge higher mark-ups in richer countries, even for homogeneous goods (Krugman, 1987; Goldberg and Knetter, 1997; Goldberg and Hellerstein, 2008; Alessandria and Kaboski, 2011; Fitzgerald and Haller, 2013; Simonovska, 2015).”
Are Poor Cities Cheap for Everyone? Non-Homotheticity and the Cost of Living Across U.S. Cities (2013, methodology): “The cross-income differences in search costs and shopping behavior explored in Simonovska (2015) could, in theory, enable low-income households to mitigate the high prices in wealthy cities at a lower cost than high-income households.”
The Elusive Pro-Competitive Effects of Trade (2018, background): “Using micro-level U.S. trade data to estimate this alternative demand system, we find that h ' 0.06. Our second strategy draws on a range of existing estimates from the markup and pass-through literatures. This second set of estimates again implies that h 0 (because in the cross-section productive f”