Measurement and Modeling of the Economic Effects of Trade and Investment Barriers in Services

Drusilla K. Brown and Robert Stern

Review of International Economics, 2001, vol. 9, issue 2, 262-286

Abstract: In this paper, the authors adapt the latest version of the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade to incorporate cross‐border services trade and foreign direct investment (FDI). Firms are taken to be monopolistically competitive. Each firm produces products differentiated by the original R&D that defines the basic product and by location of production. Each firm faces a fixed cost in the country where production occurs, and sets an optimal mark‐up for sales from each location. Firms locate production for export or for local consumption depending on the type of barriers faced. Barriers to trade in services take the form of an additional cost of employing variable capital and labor. The paper reports the impact on welfare, trade, factor prices, sectoral output, economies of scale, and activities of multinationals following the introduction of national treatment of multinational firms in all countries.

Date: 2001
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