International Trade with a Public Intermediate Good and the Gains from Trade *

Nobuhito Suga and Makoto Tawada

Review of International Economics, 2007, vol. 15, issue 2, pages 284-293

Abstract: This paper presents a one-primary factor, two-consumer good, and two-country model of international trade where each country's government supplies a country-specific public intermediate good so as to attain efficient production. By introducing the Marshallian adjustment process, it is demonstrated that the country with larger factor endowment exports the good whose productivity is more sensitive to the public intermediate good. Our normative analysis of free trade shows the following results. First, at least one country gains from trade. Secondly, if a country incompletely specializes in the trading equilibrium, the country necessarily loses from trade. Copyright © 2007 The Authors; Journal compilation © 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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