• Inequality, Nonhomothetic Preferences, And Trade: A Gravity Approach 

    Dalgin, Muhammed; Trindade, Vitor (Vitor M.); Mitra, Devashish (Department of Economics, 2006)
    We construct the first direct classification of goods as luxuries or necessities that is compatible with international trade data. We then use it to test an idea that has not been tested directly in the literature: countries' ...