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Capital Accumulation and Dynamic Gains from Trade

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  • Ravikumar, B.

    (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)

  • Santacreu, Ana Maria

    (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)

  • Sposi, Michael J.

    () (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)

Abstract

We compute welfare gains from trade in a dynamic, multi-country Ricardian model where international trade affects capital accumulation. We calibrate the model for 93 countries and examine transition paths between steady-states after a permanent, uniform trade liberalization across countries. Our model allows for both the relative price of investment and the investment rate to depend on the world distribution of trade barriers. Accounting for transitional dynamics, welfare gains are about 60 percent of those measured by comparing only the steady-states, and three times larger than those with no capital accumulation. We extend the model to incorporate adjustment costs to capital accumulation and endogenous trade imbalances. Relative to the model with balanced trade, the gains from trade increase more for small countries because they accumulate capital at faster rates by running trade deficits in the short run.

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  • Ravikumar, B. & Santacreu, Ana Maria & Sposi, Michael J., 2017. "Capital Accumulation and Dynamic Gains from Trade," Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper 296, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, revised 01 Mar 2018.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:feddgw:296
    DOI: 10.24149/gwp296r1
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    1. Michael Sposi & Ana Maria Santacreu, 2017. "Trade Liberalization Versus Protectionism: Are the Dynamic Welfare Implications Symmetric?," 2017 Meeting Papers 1617, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    2. Wyatt J. Brooks & Pau S. Pujolas, 2018. "Capital accumulation and the welfare gains from trade," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 66(2), pages 491-523, August.
    3. repec:fip:fedles:00097 is not listed on IDEAS
    4. Sposi, Michael J., 2017. "Demographics and the Evolution of Global Imbalances," Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper 332, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
    5. repec:eee:moneco:v:91:y:2017:i:c:p:1-18 is not listed on IDEAS

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    Keywords

    Welfare gains; dynamics; capital accumulation; trade imbalances;

    JEL classification:

    • E22 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
    • F11 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Neoclassical Models of Trade
    • O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

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