The Impact of Trade on Intraindustry Reallocation and Aggregate Industry Productivity: A Comment

Richard Baldwin and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

No 10718, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Melitz (2003) demonstrates that greater trade openness raises industry productivity via a selection effect and via a production re-allocation effect. Our comment points out that the set-up assumed in the Melitz model displays a trade off between static and dynamic efficiency gains. That is, although freer trade improves industry productivity in a level sense, it harms it in a growth sense. To make this point as simply as possible, we introduce a slight modification to the model that endogenises the growth rate of industry productivity and we show that liberalisation slows growth.

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Date: 2004-08
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