Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58406 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 10-15
Publisher: 
University of California, Department of Economics, Davis, CA
Abstract: 
This paper presents novel evidence of price discrimination, using prices of identical goods in 28 countries. I explain the observed phenomenon via non-homothetic preferences, in a model of trade with product differentiation and firm productivity heterogeneity. The model brings theory and data closer along a key dimension: it generates positively related prices of tradables and income, while preserving exporter behavior and trade flows of existing frameworks. It further captures observations that richer countries buy more per product and consume more diverse bundles. Quantitatively, the model suggests that variable mark-ups account for 80% of the positive price-income relationship across 123 countries.
Subjects: 
pricing-to-market
PPP
heterogeneous firms
non-homothetic preferences
JEL: 
E31
F12
L11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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