What does the eclectic trade model say about the Samuelson conundrum?

Kwok Tong Soo ()

No 578283, Working Papers from Lancaster University Management School, Economics Department

Abstract: Can growth of a trading partner harm a country? This paper seeks to answer this question through the use of an eclectic trade model which is similar in flavour to Markusen (1986). This paper makes two contributions. First, it develops a simple and tractable model of international trade based on a combination of imperfectcompetition, comparative advantage, and identical but non-homothetic preferences in a three country framework. Second, it uses this framework to consider the possibility of losses from partner-country growth in a free-trading environment. We find that the presence of nonhomothetic preferences in particular, leads to a home bias in consumption which dampens any negative welfare effects when a country's trading partners grow.

Keywords: International trade; three countries; non-homothetic preferences. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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