Measureable Dynamic Gains from Trade

Richard Baldwin

No 3147, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Productive factors such as human and physical capital are accumulated and trade can affect the steady-state levels of such factors. Consequently, trade liberalization will have dynamic effects on output and welfare as the economy moves to its new steady state, in addition to its usual static effects. The output impact of this dynamic effect is measurable and appears to be quite large. The welfare impact of this dynamic effect is also measurable. The size of this dynamic gain from trade depends on the importance of external scale economies.

Date: 1989-10
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Published as Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 100, issue 1, pp. 162-174, 1992.

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