Efficiency in International Trade with Firm Heterogeneity and Networks

Hiep Nguyen and Hiroshi Ohta

Review of Development Economics, 2007, vol. 11, issue 2, 217-231

Abstract: This paper examines integrated effects of firm heterogeneity and communication network services on international trade. Patterns and effects of trade are analyzed in a general equilibrium model where firms with different productivity levels share among them the cost of network services and compete in a monopolistically competitive market for a differentiated good. The paper reveals that the more efficient country in the production of the differentiated good is not always the net exporter of the good. The less efficient country also has the chance to expand the industry and then to become the net exporter in this intra‐industry trade due to the combination of the efficiency effect induced by firm heterogeneity and the cost‐sharing effect by the existence of the network service industry.

Date: 2007
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