Country size, international trade, and aggregate fluctuations in granular economies

Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1083-1132

  di Giovanni, Julian ^a   Levchenko, Andrei A ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL TRADE; MACROECONOMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER LAW; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84874755823     PISSN: 00223808     EISSN: 1537534X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/669161     Document Type: Article

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