作者：Krishna, K; Tan, LH
作者单位：National Bureau of Economic Research; McGill University
摘要：In a static perfectly competitive model, it is well understood that a quota license has a scarcity value. In a dynamic setting with uncertainty, the license price has two additional components, both of which arise from the fact that the license is valid for an entire year. They are the asset market component and the option value component. In this paper, we construct a model of the quota license market in which the license demand and supply functions incorporate these various components, and e...
作者：Feenstra, RC
摘要：In many endogenous growth models, trade leads to the convergence of growth rates across countries. What has not been adequately recognized is that this result depends on one crucial assumption: that trade occurs simultaneously with the international diffusion of knowledge. If instead we drop this assumption, and consider the case where no diffusion of knowledge occurs, then we find that trade in goods can lead to a divergence of growth rates, We also explore how these results are affected by t...
