American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
A Balls-and-Bins Model of Trade: Reply
American Economic Review
vol. 106,
no. 3, March 2016
(pp. 852–54)
Abstract
Blum, Claro, and Horstmann (2016) make two statements about the balls-and-bins model of Armenter and Koren (2014). First, that using firm-level shipment data changes some of our results. Second, that the balls-and-bins model is not an appropriate statistical method. We respond to the first statement and argue that the second statement is unfounded and unrelated to the first. Indeed, the work of Blum, Claro, and Horstmann (2016) is a perfect example of how to use balls-and-bins in a rich dataset to spot interesting data patterns. (JEL F11, F14)Citation
Armenter, Roc, and Miklós Koren. 2016. "A Balls-and-Bins Model of Trade: Reply." American Economic Review, 106 (3): 852–54. DOI: 10.1257/aer.20151233Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- F11 Neoclassical Models of Trade
- F14 Empirical Studies of Trade