Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation,
Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies
No 73: Income Inequality as a Determinant of Trade Flows*
Helena Bohman () and Désirée Nilsson ()
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Helena Bohman: Jönköping International Business School, Postal: Jönköping University, P.O. Box 1026, SE-551 11 Jönköping,
Désirée Nilsson: Jönköping International Business School, Postal: Jönköping University, P.O. Box 1026, SE-551 11 Jönköping,
Abstract: Consumer studies have a long tradition of incorporating non-homothetic preferences in their models, whereas this has been very uncommon in studies of international trade. We use a model from Mitra and Trindade (2005) to set up a gravity model in which we include income distribution measures as explanatory variables for the exporting as well as for the importing countries. Our results indicate that non-homothetic preferences significantly affect both exports and imports.
Keywords: income inequality; trade flows
28 pages, September 22, 2006
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