Quality-enhancing trade liberalization

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Eswaran, Mukesh; Kotwal, Ashok
• 署名单位: University of British Columbia
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2006.02.003
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 549-561
• 关键词: quality; trade liberalization

摘要

This paper examines the effect,of trade liberalization on the quality of industrial goods produced by a developing country. The intermediate goods used as inputs to industrial production are assumed to be non-traded and produced by firms with market power. It is shown here;that for a certain range of human capital levels, exposure to free trade, instead of resulting in de-industrialization, can raise welfare through an improvement in the quality of domestically produced industrial goods. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.