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Increasing Returns and the Gains from Trade

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It is known that gains from trade are positive in the presence of increasing returns to scale if all increasing-returns industries expand in the shift from autarky. Sufficient conditions for gains when some increasing-returns industries expand and others contract suffer from the limitations that the production frontier must be convex, changes must satisfy a prespecified hierarchical pattern, or that total factor supplies must be fixed between equilibria, conditions which can not generally be assured. This paper develops a necessary and sufficient condition for gains and from it a sufficient condition that does not depend on these restrictions. Copyright 1991 by Economics Department of the University of Pennsylvania and the Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association.

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  • Grinols, Earl L, 1991. "Increasing Returns and the Gains from Trade," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 32(4), pages 973-984, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:ier:iecrev:v:32:y:1991:i:4:p:973-84
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    1. Earl L. Grinols & Peri Silva, 2008. "Industrial targeting in free trade areas with policy independence," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 41(3), pages 796-816, August.
    2. Shi, Hui, 2012. "The efficiency of government promotion of inbound tourism: The case of Australia," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 29(6), pages 2711-2718.
    3. Albert Guangzhou Hu & Zhengning Liu, 2014. "Trade Liberalization and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Industries," Review of International Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 22(3), pages 488-512, August.

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