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The US Gains From Trade: Valuation Using the Demand for Foreign Factor Services

Author(s) -

Arnaud Costinot,

Andrés Rodrı́guez-Clare

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

the journal of economic perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 9.614

H-Index - 196

eISSN - 1944-7965

pISSN - 0895-3309

DOI - 10.1257/jep.32.2.3

Subject(s) - autarky , liberian dollar , economics , welfare , valuation (finance) , international economics , international trade , market economy , finance

About eight cents out of every dollar spent in the United States is spent on imports. What if, because of a wall or some other extreme policy intervention, imports were to remain on the other side of the US border? How much would US consumers be willing to pay to prevent this hypothetical policy change from taking place? The answer to this question represents the welfare cost from autarky or, equivalently, the welfare gains from trade. In this article, we discuss how to evaluate these gains using estimates of the demand for foreign factor services.

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