Economic Integration and Welfare: Manufacturing vs. Agricultural Markets

Hajime Takatsuka () and Dao-Zhi Zeng ()

ERSA conference papers from European Regional Science Association

Abstract: In the literature of new trade theory, most papers study the industrial location by imposing the assumption of free transportation in the agricultural sector. This paper explicitly incorporates arbitrary transport costs in both the manufacturing and the agricultural sectors into the Helpman-Krugman-Davis model of two countries and one production factor. The following results are obtained. First, we find a necessary and sufficient condition for the home market effect (HME) to be observed. Secondly, we find that integrating manufacturing markets has contrastive impacts on two countries to integrating agricultural markets. Our results are suggestive for the understanding of various international trade agreements.

Date: 2011-09
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