The Technology Transfer Paradox

Ronald Jones and Roy J. Ruffin

Chapter 3 in International Trade Theory and Competitive Models:Features, Values, and Criticisms, 2018, pp 31-46 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: This chapter examines whether a country that enjoys a superior technology in all commodities in a two-country, multi-commodity Ricardian setting could actually gain if its technology in which it possesses its greatest comparative advantage is stolen or transferred to the other country without any compensation. Such a paradoxical possibility is shown always to exist with a finite number of commodities and equal-shared Cobb–Douglas demand conditions for certain ranges of relative country size.

Keywords: International Trade Theory; Models; Competitive Markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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