Factor Supplies, Welfare and Output When Non‐traded Intermediate Production Has Increasing Returns

Sajid Anwar

Australian Economic Papers, 1999, vol. 38, issue 2, 176-188

Abstract: This paper considers the impact of an exogenous change in the supply of primary factors on output levels, relative prices and welfare in the presence of output generated increasing returns to scale. Unlike the existing studies, this paper utilises a model of a small open economy where increasing returns do not occur in the production of a traded final good but in the production of a non‐traded intermediate good. Within the context of the present study, it is shown that the Rybczynski theorem is unlikely to hold and an increase in the supply of either primary factor can harm welfare.

Date: 1999
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