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The nature and growth of vertical specialization in world trade
- David Hummels, Junzo Ishii, Kei-Mu Yi
- Economics
- 1 June 2001
The Variety and Quality of a Nation's Exports
- David Hummels, P. Klenow
- Economics
- 1 May 2005
Large economies export more in absolute terms than do small economies. We use data on shipments by 126 exporting countries to 59 importing countries in 5,000 product categories to answer the…
Toward a Geography of Trade Costs
- David Hummels
- Economics
- 1 January 1999
What are the barriers that separate nations? While recent work provides intriguing clues, we have remarkably little concrete evidence as to the nature, size, and shape of barriers. This paper offers…
Transportation Costs and International Trade in the Second Era of Globalization
- David Hummels
- Economics
- 1 July 2007
While the precise causes of postwar trade growth are not well understood, declines in transport costs top the lists of usual suspects. However, there is remarkably little systematic evidence…
Shipping the Good Apples Out? An Empirical Confirmation of the Alchian‐Allen Conjecture
- David Hummels, Alexandre Skiba
- EconomicsJournal of Political Economy
- 1 June 2002
Alchian and Allen show that a per unit transactions cost lowers the relative price of, and raises the relative demand for, high‐quality goods. We extend their theory, deriving a relationship between…
Monopolistic Competition and International Trade: Reconsidering the Evidence
- David Hummels, J. Levinsohn
- Economics
- 1 June 1993
In this paper, we test some propositions about international trade flows that are derived from a model of monopolistic competition developed by Elhanan Helpman. We investigate whether the volume of…
Have International Transportation Costs Declined
- David Hummels
- Economics
- 13 January 2003
July 1999
While the precise causes of post-war trade growth are not well understood, declines in transport costs top the lists of usual suspects. However, there is remarkably little systematic…
Trade Responses to Geographic Frictions: A Decomposition Using Micro-Data
- Russell Hillberry, David Hummels
- Economics
- 1 May 2005
Time as a Trade Barrier
- David Hummels, Georg Schaur
- Economics
- 1 January 2012
A large and growing share of international trade is carried on airplanes. Air cargo is many times more expensive than maritime transport but arrives in destination markets much faster. We model…
How Confident Can We Be in Cge-Based Assessments of Free Trade Agreements?
- T. Hertel, David Hummels, M. Ivanic, R. Keeney
- Economics
- 1 May 2004
With the proliferation of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) over the past decade, demand for quantitative analysis of their likely impacts has surged. The main quantitative tool for performing such…
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