Deductions from the Export Basket: Capabilities, Wealth and Trade

John Sutton, Daniel Trefler

NBER Working Paper No. 16834
Issued in February 2011

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We are indebted to Daron Acemoglu, Philippe Aghion, Bernardo Blum, Kunal Dasgupta, Gilles Duranton, Penny Goldberg, Avner Grief, Elhanan Helpman, Amit Khandelwal, Peter Morrow, Nathan Nunn, Steve Redding, Peter Schott, Bob Staiger, and Eric Verhoogen as well as seminar participants at CIFAR, Columbia, CREI, Michigan, Toronto, Stanford, and Yale. Trefler gratefully acknowledges funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the tremendous support of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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