One cannot exaggerate the importance of estimating how international trade responds to changes in income and prices. But there is a tension between whether one should use models that fit the data but that contradict certain aspects of the underlying theory or models that fit the theory but contradict certain aspects of the data. The essays in Estimating Trade Elasticities book offer one practical approach to deal with this tension. The analysis starts with the practical implications of optimising behaviour for estimation and it follows with a re-examination of the puzzling income elasticity for US imports that three decades of studies have not resolved. The analysis then turns to the study of the role of income and prices in determining the expansion in Asian trade, a study largely neglected in fifty years of research. With the new estimates of trade elasticities, the book examines how they assist in restoring the consistency between elasticity estimates and the world trade identity.

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"All in all, Marquez's book is a remarkable and thought-provoking contribution to the literature. Like all of his earlier work, it is very carefully and professionally done. It illustrates some of the conflicts that applied researchers must deal with, and it paves the way to a number of innovative and imaginative solutions. Marquez does a very good job at striking a balance between the needs of analysts and forecasters. His book is well worth reading for anyone interested in empirical trade issues."
(Journal of Economics/Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, 81:1 (2004)

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Federal Reserve Board, USA

Jaime Marquez

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Jaime Marquez received his PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983. Since then, he has been a staff economist of the Federal Reserve Board. He also serves as a professorial lecturer at the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University.

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Book Title: Estimating Trade Elasticities
Authors: Jaime Marquez
Series Title: Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3536-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2002
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-7159-1Published: 31 August 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-5300-1Published: 29 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-3536-9Published: 14 March 2013
Series ISSN: 1570-5811
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7977
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 138
Topics: Econometrics, International Economics, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics

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Front Matter

Introduction

Modeling Considerations

Elasticities for U.S. Imports

Elasticities for Asian Trade

Conclusions

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