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Size Does Matter: International Trade and Population Size

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Yochanan Shachmurove () (The City College of The City University of New York and the University of Pennsylvania)
Uriel Spiegel () (Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University)

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Abstract

Classical theory of international trade has long advocated trade liberalization and open borders. However, this process is not necessarily beneficial to all countries involved. This paper focuses on two modeled economies that initially share the same technology and per-capita income, but differ in population size. With trade, the profit of the large duopolist is reduced to the benefit of the duopoly in the smaller country, as the large country is no longer able to benefit from its larger population. This may explain why one country would want to open trade with high barriers while another country would prefer low barriers.

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Paper provided by Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania in its series PIER Working Paper Archive with number 04-035.

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Date of creation: 04 Jul 2004
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Keywords: Duopoly Free Trade Protectionism Population Size Nash Equilibrium

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D4 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure and Pricing
F1 - International Economics - - Trade
L1 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance

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