Trade Wedges, Inventories, and International Business Cycles

George Alessandria, Joseph Kaboski, Virgiliu Midrigan

NBER Working Paper No. 18191
Issued in June 2012

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Nils Gornemann and David Richards provided excellent research assistance. We thank Sam Kortum, Jonathan Heathcote, Paolo Pesenti, Mario Crucini and seminar participants at Wharton, Yale, Wisconsin, Notre Dame, and Duke for their comments and suggestions. The views expressed here are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, the Federal Reserve System, or the National Bureau of Economic Research. This paper was prepared for the Carnegie-NYU-Rochester conference series.

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