The opportunity costs of entrepreneurs in international trade

C-Tier
Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2016
Volume: 146
Issue: C
Pages: 1-3

Score contribution per author:

0.335 = (α=2.01 / 3 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

We show that a trade model with an exogenous set of heterogeneous firms with fixed operating costs has the same aggregate outcomes as a span-of-control model. Fixed costs in the heterogeneous-firm model are entrepreneurs’ forgone wages in the span-of-control model.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:146:y:2016:i:c:p:1-3
Journal Field
General
Author Count
3
Added to Database
2026-01-25