International Trade in Resources: A General Equilibrium Analysis

Trade Liberalization and International Competitiveness in Iran: An Application of Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Model

 Trade liberalization is often the core attention of foreign economic strategies in developing countries. Findings in the literature confirm a significant effect of free trade on developing economies through which the economic sectors benefit from technology transfer and spillovers and increasing production capacities and input productivity leading to international competitiveness. On the other...

General Equilibrium in a closed International Trade model

Trade and inequality in developing countries: a general equilibrium analysis

Developing and newly industrialized countries that have experienced the sharpest increases in wage inequality are those whose export shares have shifted towards more skill-intensive goods. We argue that this can be explained by technological catch-up. We develop this insight using a model that features both Ricardian and endowments-based comparative advantage. In this model, Southern catch-up c...

General equilibrium analysis of the Eaton–Kortum model of international trade

We study a variation of the Eaton–Kortum model, a competitive, constant-returns-to-scale multicountry Ricardian model of trade. We establish existence and uniqueness of an equilibrium with balanced trade where each country imposes an import tariff. We analyze the determinants of the cross-country distribution of trade volumes, such as size, tariffs and distance, and compare a calibrated version...

Nber Working Paper Series General Equilibrium Analysis of the Eaton-kortum Model of International Trade

We thank Jonathan Eaton, Tim Kehoe, Sam Kortum, Ellen McGrattan, Sergey Mityakov, Casey Mulligan, John Romalis, Kim Ruhl, Ed Prescott, Phil Reny, Rob Shimer, Nancy Stokey, Chad Syverson, Ivan Werning, participants in the December, 2003, conference at Torcuato di Tella and seminar participants at Cornell, Boston University, Brown, Harvard, Minnesota and Chicago for helpful discussions. Constanti...