Ralph Ossa

General seminars
amse seminar

Ralph Ossa

University of Zurich
Accounting for the new gains from trade liberalization
Joint with
Chang-Tai Hsieh, Nicholas Li, Mu-Jeung Yang
Venue

IBD Amphi

Îlot Bernard du Bois - Amphithéâtre

AMU - AMSE
5-9 boulevard Maurice Bourdet
13001 Marseille

Date(s)
Monday, June 4 2018| 2:30pm to 4:00pm
Contact(s)

Timothée Demont: timothee.demont[at]univ-amu.fr
Roberta Ziparo: rziparo[at]gmail.com

Abstract

We challenge the conventional wisdom on the variety and productivity gains from trade liberalization which are commonly referred to as "new" gains from trade. In particular, we show that the import variety gains measured in studies such as Broda and Weinstein (2006) are counteracted by exactly analogous domestic variety losses. Similarly, we show that the domestic productivity gains measured in studies such as Treáer (2004) are counteracted by exactly analogous import productivity losses. We then account for all these gains and losses in an application to the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement and show that Canada actually experienced net "new" losses from trade.

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