On some properties of a trade closure widely used in numerical modelling

Economics Letters

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-21

  Bhattarai, Keshab ^a   Ghosh, Madanmohan ^b   Whalley, John ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

C68; Closure; F40; General equilibrium; Offer curve; Trade

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033482046     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(98)00187-6     Document Type: Article

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