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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w7941 |
来源ID | Working Paper 7941 |
Increasing Returns and All That: A View From Trade | |
Werner Antweiler; Daniel Trefler | |
发表日期 | 2000-10-01 |
出版年 | 2000 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Do scale economies contribute to our understanding of international trade? Do international trade flows encode information about the extent of scale economies? To answer these questions we examine the large class of general equilibrium theories that imply Helpman-Krugman variants of the Vanek factor content prediction. Using an ambitious database on output, trade flows, and factor endowments, we find that scale economies significantly increase our understanding of the sources of comparative advantage. Further, the Helpman-Krugman framework provides a remarkable lens for viewing the general equilibrium scale elasticities encoded in trade flows. In particular, we find that a third of all goods-producing industries are characterized by scale. (The modal range of scale elasticities for this group is 1.10-1.20 and the economy-wide scale elasticity is 1.05.) Implications are drawn for the trade-and-wages debate (skill-biased scale effects) and endogenous growth. |
主题 | International Economics ; Trade |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w7941 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/565527 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Werner Antweiler,Daniel Trefler. Increasing Returns and All That: A View From Trade. 2000. |
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