| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w20851 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 20851 |
| Technology and Geography in the Second Industrial Revolution: New Evidence from the Margins of Trade | |
| Michael Huberman; Christopher M. Meissner; Kim Oosterlinck | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-01-19 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | In the Belle Époque, Belgium recorded an unprecedented trade boom, but growth in output per capita was lackluster. We seek to reconcile this ostensible paradox. Because of the sharp decline in both fixed and variable trade costs, the trade boom was as much about the expansion in the number of products delivered and markets served as it was about shipping more of the same old products. We use a new highly disaggregated data set on bilateral exports at the product level to illustrate these claims. In line with new trade theory, the effect of trade on productivity was mediated by sector-level firm heterogeneity and product differentiation. In new technology sectors, like tramways, the high degree of firm heterogeneity amplified the effect of trade on productivity. But in other sectors, mainly old staple industries like cotton textiles, a high level of firm uniformity muted the effect of trade. Into the twentieth century, old staples trumped new technology sectors, per capita income growing modestly as a result. |
| 主题 | International Economics ; Trade ; History ; Other History |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w20851 |
| 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/578526 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Michael Huberman,Christopher M. Meissner,Kim Oosterlinck. Technology and Geography in the Second Industrial Revolution: New Evidence from the Margins of Trade. 2015. |
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