Teams of rivals: endogenous markups in a Ricardian world

Beatriz de Blas () and Katheryn Russ

No 67, Globalization Institute Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Abstract: We show that an ostensibly disparate set of stylized facts regarding firm pricing behavior can arise in a Ricardian model with Bertrand competition. Generalizing the Bernard, Eaton, Jenson, and Kortum (2003) model allows firms' markups over marginal cost to fall under trade liberalization, but increase with FDI, matching empirical studies in international trade. We are able to mesh this dichotomy with the existence of pricing-to-market and imperfect pass-through, as well as to capture stylized facts regarding the frequency and synchronization of price adjustment across markets. The result is a well specified distribution for markups that previously could only be seen numerically and a way to quantify endogenous pricing rigidities emerging from a market structure governed by fierce competition among rivals.

Keywords: Macroeconomics; International trade; Pricing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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