Why are losses from trade unlikely?
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Examining a standard monopolistic competition model with unspecified utility/cost functions, we find necessary and sufficient conditions on their elasticities for welfare losses to arise from trade or market expansion. Two numerical examples explain the losses (under unrealistic elasticities).
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Economics Letters
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0165-1765
1873-7374
1873-7374
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129
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Elsevier
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