Price Equalization Does Not Imply Free Trade

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Piyusha Mutreja

Syracuse University - Department of Economics

B. Ravikumar

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis

Raymond G. Riezman

Aarhus University - Department of Economics and Business Economics; University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) - Department of Economics; University of Iowa - Henry B. Tippie College of Business - Department of Economics; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute); GEP; Aarhus University - School of Business and Social Sciences

Michael Sposi

Southern Methodist University (SMU)

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Date Written: 2015

Abstract

In this article, the authors demonstrate the possibility of price equalization in a two-country world with barriers to international trade. For price equalization to occur when the countries are asymmetric, the country with higher productivity must also be the one with the lower trade barrier. A corollary of the authors’ result is that small departures from purchasing power parity do not necessarily imply that world trade is mostly integrated.

JEL Classification: F11, F13, F14

Suggested Citation

Mutreja, Piyusha and Ravikumar, B. and Ravikumar, B. and Riezman, Raymond G. and Sposi, Michael, Price Equalization Does Not Imply Free Trade (2015). Review, Vol. 97, Issue 4, pp. 323-39, 2015, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2754969 or http://dx.doi.org/10.20955/r.2015.323-39

Piyusha Mutreja (Contact Author)

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B. Ravikumar

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis ( email )

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Raymond G. Riezman

Aarhus University - Department of Economics and Business Economics ( email )

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Michael Sposi

Southern Methodist University (SMU) ( email )

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