@article{Schürenberg-Frosch:332593,
      recid = {332593},
      author = {Schürenberg-Frosch, Hannah},
      title = {We couldn't care less about Armington elasticities - but  should we?  A systematic analysis of the influence of  Armington elasticity misspecification on model results},
      address = {2015},
      pages = {27},
      year = {2015},
      note = {Presented at the 18th Annual Conference on Global Economic  Analysis, Melbourne, Australia},
      abstract = {This paper investigates the robustness of CGE models with  respect to the elasticities of substitution in demand  between domestically produced goods and foreign goods – the  so-called Armington elasticities. The Armington-type  modeling of trade is still one of the most extensively used  specifications in CGE modeling. For a long time the choice  of the respective elasticities of substitution has not been  given much attention. The most frequently used procedure  was to adopt the elasticities from the literature, which  meant using elasticities that had been estimated (or  guessed) for a different country and often also for a  different degree of data aggregation. However, recently,  some authors have shown that the elasticities 1) vary more  substantially over countries than had been expected and 2)  are higher in more recent estimations than in those which  have been published in the 1980s and 1990s.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/332593},
}