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Philip's avatar

No finance papers? I think Modigliani & Miller (1958), Sharpe (1964), Black & Scholes (1973), Merton (1973), Lucas (1978), and Mehra & Prescott (1985) should be part of the canon.

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Thanks so much for this, which I've been really enjoying working my way through. On Arkolakis, Costinot and Rodriguez-Clare 2012, you make a note about "much smaller results" - what do you mean by this, given that there is no empirical analysis? Is this the Melitz-Redding critique that a truncated Pareto distribution yields a variable trade elasticity and therefore provides a welfare margin caused by firm heterogeneity? Many thanks!

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