Trade Costs, Innovation, and Imitation

Hans Jarle Kind

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Abstract: This paper presents an endogenous growth model where it is endogenously determined whether entrepreneurs in the poor East choose to innovate or to imitate goods from the rich West. It is shown that we have a unique equilibrium with imitation when trade is relatively expensive, in which case the global growth rate is higher and the international wage gap smaller than if both regions innovate. This changes fundamentally for some intermediate levels of trade costs, where there exist multiple equilibria - one equilibrium where both regions innovate, and one where the East imitates. Economic growth is moreover lower and international wage differences larger in the equilibrium with imitation.

Keywords: GROWTH MODELS; INNOVATIONS; TRADE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 F13 O3 O41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 1998
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