Specialization in a dynamic trade model: An overlapping generations case

Akihiko Kaneko

International Economic Journal, 2006, vol. 20, issue 3, 357-368

Abstract: We explore a small open economy with overlapping generations to show that demographic structure is an important factor for the determination of a production pattern in the dynamic trade theory. In the representative agent model, Baxter (1992) shows that even if there are two commodities and two production factors, there is a Ricardian implication that opening up to trade leads to perfect specialization in a small open economy. In contrast, using the overlapping generations model, we find that the heterogeneity of the economic agents generally makes imperfect specialization occur. We also find that whether the stability condition holds or not is crucial for the determination of the long-run production pattern.

Keywords: Specialization; dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin model; overlapping generations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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