Long-Period Trade Elasticities for Canada, Japan, and the United States

Jaime Marquez

Review of International Economics, 1999, vol. 7, issue 1, 102-16

Abstract: Most analyses of imports use brief, postwar samples and offer a large range of elasticity estimates suggesting that the role of income and prices in determining imports is not known with any precision. This paper offers an analysis of that role using data since 1890 for Canada, Japan, and the United States. The elasticities of the log-linear model are estimated and found to be inconsistent with the view that income and prices affect imports. Optimization models are considered and found to predict secular changes in income and price elasticities and explain the dispersion of estimates of the literature. Copyright 1999 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Date: 1999
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