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Fixed Export Cost heterogeneity, Trade and Welfare

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Schröder, Philipp J.H.
Jørgensen, Jan G.

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Recent literature on the workhorse model of intra-industry trade has explored heterogeneous cost structures at the firm level. These approaches have proven to add realism and predictive power. This paper presents a new and simple heterogeneous-firms specification. We develop a symmetric two-country intra-industry trade model where firms are of two different marginal costs types and where fixed export costs are heterogeneous across firms. This model traces many of the stylized facts of international trade. However, we find that with heterogeneous fixed export costs there exists a positive bilateral tariff that maximizes national and world welfare.

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Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 7397.

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Keywords: Intra-industry trade; trade liberalization; monopolistic competition; heterogeneous firms; welfare; protectionism;

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F15 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Economic Integration
F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies

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  1. Philipp J.H. Schröeder & Allan Sørensen, 2009. "Second Thoughts on Exporter Productivity," Economics Working Papers 2009-03, School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus. [Downloadable!]
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