Jaimovich, E. & Merella, V. (2009). The role of quality ladders in a Ricardian model of trade with nonhomothetic preference. (Report No. 09/01). London, UK: Department of Economics, City University London.
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Abstract
The literature on North-South trade has explored conditions under which international trade might be a factor magnifying income disparities between the advanced North and the backward South. Little attention has yet been placed on the effect of trade on countries that do not display substantial dissimilarities concerning capital endowments. We show that even when no single country is technologically more advanced than any other one and productivity changes are uniform and identical in all countries, international trade may still be a source of income divergence. Income divergence will be experienced when comparative advantages induce patterns of specialisation that, although optimal for each country at some initial point in time, do not o¤er the same scope for improvements in terms of subsequent quality upgrading of final products.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Discussion Paper) |
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| Additional Information: | © 2009 the authors. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | international trade, quality ladders, nonhomothetic preferences |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| Divisions: | School of Social Sciences > Department of Economics > Department of Economics Discussion Paper Series |
| URI: | http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/1506 |
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