A Harris-style miniature version of ORANI

Peter Cory and Mark Horridge

Centre of Policy Studies/IMPACT Centre Working Papers from Victoria University, Centre of Policy Studies/IMPACT Centre

Abstract: A small version of ORANI is constructed, incorporating economies of scale and imperfect competition. Economic mechanisms are borrowed from a model constructed by Richard Harris, and described in his 1984 book "Trade, Industrial Policy and Canadian Manufacturing". The miniature Harris-like model is used to determine whether Harris' conclusions might carry over to Australia, and to see which of his several assumptions are responsible for his more striking results. We find that import-parity pricing is responsible for most of the 'action', while Lerner pricing (based on perceived demand elasticities) yields results similar to the conventional CRTS model. Please note: The PDF download of this fairly old paper is an optical scan of indifferent, but legible, quality

Keywords: Economies of scale; imperfect competition; applied general equilibrium models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C68 L11 L13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985-06
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