Seminar: Jose Asturias (Georgetown – Qatar)

Hunter West 1537 (Economics Dept. Seminar Room) 912 Lexington Avenue, New York

Title: Endogenous Transportation Costs (link: EndTranspCosts) Abstract: Quantitative trade models used to evaluate the effects of policy changes have largely abstracted away from modeling the transportation industry. This paper extends a standard Armington trade model to incorporate an oligopolistically competitive transportation industry in which shippers endogenously choose a transportation technology. Read more…