International Trade with Lumpy Countries

Paul N. Courant and Alan Deardorff
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Paul N. Courant: University of Michigan, USA

Chapter 14 in Comparative Advantage, Growth, and the Gains from Trade and Globalization:A Festschrift in Honor of Alan V Deardorff, 2011, pp 141-154 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractThis paper explores the implications for the pattern of international trade of differences among regions within countries—what we call “lumpiness.” If factors of production are sufficiently unevenly distributed across regions, then the pattern of trade of the country as a whole may depart from what it would have been had factors been evenly distributed. Thus lumpiness in the geographical distribution of factors can be a determinant of trade. We show in particular that if other determinants of trade are absent, then a country will tend to export the good that intensively uses its lumpier (i.e., more unevenly distributed) factor.

Keywords: Comparative Advantage; Trade And Growth; Globalization; Computational Modeling; Trade Policy Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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Related works:
Journal Article: International Trade with Lumpy Countries (1992)
Working Paper: INTERNATIONAL TRADE WITH LUMPY COUNTRIES (1989)
Working Paper: INTERNATIONAL TRADE WITH LUMPY COUNTRIES (1989)
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