- Title Pages
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Boxes
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview
- Chapter 2 The Multilateral Trading System
- Chapter 3 Preferential Trade Agreements
- Chapter 4 Comparative Advantage: The Ricardian and Heckscher–Ohlin Theories
- Chapter 5 Trade and the Gains from Trade in the Presence of Decreasing Costs and Imperfect Competition
- Chapter 6 Instruments of Trade Policy
- Chapter 7 Tools for Applied Goods Trade Policy Analysis: An Introduction
- Chapter 8 The Political Economy of Protectionism
- Chapter 9 The Doha Round
- Chapter 10 Protective Regimes and Trade Reform
- Chapter 11 Protection, Subsidies, and Agricultural Trade
- Chapter 12 The Economics of Services Trade: An Overview
- Chapter 13 Miracles and Debacles: An Extension*
- Chapter 14 Policy Practices and Institutions for Successful Export Development and Diversification in Developing Countries*
- Chapter 15 Trade, Poverty, Inequality, and Gender
- Chapter 16 Migration: The Globalization of International Labor Flows, Its Causes and Consequences
- Chapter 17 Deep Integration in Preferential Trade Agreements*
- Chapter 18 Rules of Origin*
- Chapter 19 Regionalism in the Americas at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: NAFTA and Mercosur*
- Chapter 20 Safeguards, Anti-dumping, and Subsidies in International Trade Law
- Chapter 21 Services Trade Agreements and Negotiations: An Overview
- Chapter 22 Public and Private Food Safety Standards: Compliance Costs and Strategic Opportunities*
- Chapter 23 Intellectual Property Rights: Economic Principles and Trade Rules*
- Chapter 24 International Investment Agreements: Investor Protections and Foreign Direct Investment*
- Chapter 25 Dispute Settlement in the WTO: A Manual*
- Chapter 26 Competition Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements: Options for Policymakers*
- Chapter 27 International Disciplines on Government Procurement*
- Chapter 28 Trade Facilitation and Development
- Chapter 29 Trade and Environment
- Chapter 30 International Trade and Labor Standards
- Index of Names
- General Index
Trade and the Gains from Trade in the Presence of Decreasing Costs and Imperfect Competition
Trade and the Gains from Trade in the Presence of Decreasing Costs and Imperfect Competition
- Chapter:
- (p.114) Chapter 5 Trade and the Gains from Trade in the Presence of Decreasing Costs and Imperfect Competition
- Source:
- Handbook of Trade Policy for Development
- Author(s):
Mary E. Lovely
Devashish Mitra
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Mary Lovely and Devashish Mitra explore an important class of alternative models of trade based on economies of scale. They present four different types of scale economies, derived from distinctions drawn on two dimensions. The first centers on whether scale economies are internal to an individual firm or external to it, the second on whether geographic concentration of production is necessary for costs to fall as the scale of activity increases (that is, whether scale economies are national or international in scope). The authors find that the conclusions that can be drawn regarding the effect of trade and the role of policy are sensitive to the form of scale economy and the structure of the market.
Keywords: Trade models, scale economies, firms, geography, market structure, trade
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- Title Pages
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Boxes
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview
- Chapter 2 The Multilateral Trading System
- Chapter 3 Preferential Trade Agreements
- Chapter 4 Comparative Advantage: The Ricardian and Heckscher–Ohlin Theories
- Chapter 5 Trade and the Gains from Trade in the Presence of Decreasing Costs and Imperfect Competition
- Chapter 6 Instruments of Trade Policy
- Chapter 7 Tools for Applied Goods Trade Policy Analysis: An Introduction
- Chapter 8 The Political Economy of Protectionism
- Chapter 9 The Doha Round
- Chapter 10 Protective Regimes and Trade Reform
- Chapter 11 Protection, Subsidies, and Agricultural Trade
- Chapter 12 The Economics of Services Trade: An Overview
- Chapter 13 Miracles and Debacles: An Extension*
- Chapter 14 Policy Practices and Institutions for Successful Export Development and Diversification in Developing Countries*
- Chapter 15 Trade, Poverty, Inequality, and Gender
- Chapter 16 Migration: The Globalization of International Labor Flows, Its Causes and Consequences
- Chapter 17 Deep Integration in Preferential Trade Agreements*
- Chapter 18 Rules of Origin*
- Chapter 19 Regionalism in the Americas at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: NAFTA and Mercosur*
- Chapter 20 Safeguards, Anti-dumping, and Subsidies in International Trade Law
- Chapter 21 Services Trade Agreements and Negotiations: An Overview
- Chapter 22 Public and Private Food Safety Standards: Compliance Costs and Strategic Opportunities*
- Chapter 23 Intellectual Property Rights: Economic Principles and Trade Rules*
- Chapter 24 International Investment Agreements: Investor Protections and Foreign Direct Investment*
- Chapter 25 Dispute Settlement in the WTO: A Manual*
- Chapter 26 Competition Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements: Options for Policymakers*
- Chapter 27 International Disciplines on Government Procurement*
- Chapter 28 Trade Facilitation and Development
- Chapter 29 Trade and Environment
- Chapter 30 International Trade and Labor Standards
- Index of Names
- General Index