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Trade, access to varieties, and patterns of consumption

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This paper provides empirical evidence that product diversity drove a part of the evolution of consumers' spending in the US over the 1993-2018 period. The change in the set of varieties available led consumers to increase by 1.19% the share of their budget allocated to a sector subject to the average variety expansion over that period. I exploit the exogenous change in the range of products available due to the growth of international trade to identify the causal relation. Using this identification strategy, I show that through changes in product diversity, international trade has a sizable effect on the evolution of patterns of consumption in a country, especially relative to the price effect.
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hal-03331798 , version 1 (02-09-2021)

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Amandine Aubry. Trade, access to varieties, and patterns of consumption. Review of International Economics, 2022, 30 (2), pp.369-400. ⟨10.1111/roie.12567⟩. ⟨hal-03331798⟩
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