Market access, economic geography and comparative advantage: an empirical test

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Davis, DR; Weinstein, DE
• 署名单位: Columbia University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1996(02)00088-0
• 发表日期: 2003
• 页码: 1-23
• 关键词: increasing returns; Economic geography; comparative advantage

摘要

Traditional neoclassical models of comparative advantage suggest that, all else equal, a country with idiosyncratically strong demand for a good will be an importer of that good. However, there is a contrary tradition that emphasizes the advantages of a large home market as a foundation for exports of a good. One recent formalization of this home market approach falls within what is termed the new economic geography. This paper integrates core models of Heckscher-Ohlin and Krugman [American Economic Review 70 (1980) 950] to investigate whether such home market effects matter empirically in manufacturing for a set of OECD countries. The evidence suggests that home market effects are important for a broad segment of OECD manufacturing. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.