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Stolper–Samuelson Revisited: Trade And Distribution With Oligopolistic Profits

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This paper investigates the distributional impact of international trade when goods markets are oligopolistic and firms partially pass-through changes in tariffs into prices and factor costs for differentiated products. Trade liberalization raises mark-ups and profit shares in the export industry and lowers them in the import-competing industry, while Stolper-Samuelson effects on real prices of primary factors are attenuated or possibly reversed. An extended model shows how "offshoring" (trade in intermediate goods) can potentially increase mark-ups for oligopolistic producers of final goods. The analysis illuminates why business interests generally support trade liberalization policies today, regardless of their countries' factor abundance.
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  • Robert A. Blecker, 2012. "Stolper–Samuelson Revisited: Trade And Distribution With Oligopolistic Profits," Metroeconomica, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 63(3), pages 569-598, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:metroe:v:63:y:2012:i:3:p:569-598
    DOI: j.1467-999X.2012.04160.x
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    1. Robert A. Blecker, 2025. "Conflict and cooperation in international trade: post-Keynesian perspectives," FMM Working Paper 119-2025, IMK at the Hans Boeckler Foundation, Macroeconomic Policy Institute.
    2. William Milberg & Lauren Johnston, 2025. "The China Shock Then and Now: Imports, Cost Markups and Profits," Working Papers 2512, New School for Social Research, Department of Economics.

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    JEL classification:

    • F11 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Neoclassical Models of Trade
    • F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
    • D33 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Factor Income Distribution
    • D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
    • E12 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Keynes; Keynesian; Post-Keynesian; Modern Monetary Theory

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