Abstract:This paper is based on New Open Economy Macroeconomics as the theoretical foundation thereby applying the principle of comparative advantage of the international trade theory to open economics for finding out the effect of the change in the number of varieties on a set of macroeconomic variables in a country, such as consumption, price, output, terms of trade, and exchange rate, as well as the role of computation home bias. This paper finds that under the long-run, an increase in the number of varieties will h… Show more
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