Patrick Conway
The Case of the Missing Trade and other Mysteries:
Comment
forthcoming in the American Economic Review
The publication process of necessity rations the amount
of information that can be included in a journal article. I have
assembled this Web site as an "appendix" to my comment on Daniel Trefler's
important American Economic Review piece of December 1995.
You should find sufficient information here to duplicate all of my calculations.
You'll also find working papers and appendices that lay out the theoretical
bases of the estimating equations. If you have any comments on the
analysis presented here, please contact
me with your thoughts.
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The text of this comment (in pdf
format).
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The text of an appendix to this
comment (in pdf format). It includes two sections: a discussion
of the scaling of variables and a derivation of equation (13b) in the comment.
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SAS files to recreate the analysis of this comment.
Daniel Trefler originally provided his data to me in SAS format, and these
files are extensions and variations of that original program. Thanks
to Professor Trefler for agreeing to publish the data and programs in this
way.
The Trefler data set.
A SAS program to duplicate the results of Trefler's
Table 1.
A SAS program to generate the results of Tables 1
and 2 in the comment.
A SAS program to duplicate the productivity estimates
of Trefler's T1 hypothesis and to
create similar estimates while using the Summers-Heston expenditure shares,
as reported in
item 6 of Table 1 of the comment.
A SAS program to generate the results of Table
3
in the comment.
