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Robert C. Feenstra
Researcher at University of California, Davis
Publications - 298
Citations - 39591
Robert C. Feenstra is an academic researcher from University of California, Davis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Price index & Trade barrier. The author has an hindex of 83, co-authored 295 publications receiving 37147 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert C. Feenstra include National Bureau of Economic Research & University of California, San Diego.
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ChinaAS Exports and Employment
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that exports have become increasingly important in stimulating employment in China, but that the same gains could be obtained from growth in domestic demand, especially for tradable goods, which has been stagnant until at least 2002.
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Bias in U.S. Import Prices and Demand
TL;DR: In this article, the authors measure the potential bias in the U.S. import price index due to the appearance of new product varieties, or new foreign suppliers, and determine the effect of this bias on the estimated income elasticity of import demand.
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Optimal Choice of Product Scope for Multiproduct Firms under Monopolistic Competition
Robert C. Feenstra,Hong Ma +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop a monopolistic competition model where firms exercise their market power across multiple products and choose their optimal product scope by balancing the net profits from a new variety against the costs of "cannibalizing" their own sales.
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Distributing the gains from trade with incomplete information
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the incomplete information which the government has about domestic agents means that tariffs become an optimal instrument to protect them from import competition, and they find that the optimal policy takes the form of nonlinear tariffs.
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staggered price setting and endogenous persistence
TL;DR: In this article, the authors considered a translog form for preferences and an input-output structure for production in the context of a dynamic general equilibrium model of monopolistically competitive staggered price-setters.