Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/101728 
Year of Publication: 
1996
Series/Report no.: 
Diskussionsbeiträge - Serie II No. 309
Publisher: 
Universität Konstanz, Sonderforschungsbereich 178 - Internationalisierung der Wirtschaft, Konstanz
Abstract: 
This paper provides a new model of firm's location choices. It integrates a Ricardian model of comparative advantage with the location effects deriving from trade costs, increasing returns to scale, product differentiation, and monopolistic competition. In a two-region, two-differentiated-good, one-factor framework, the regional degree of specialization depends positively on the extent of the comparative advantage in productivity and on the degree of returns to scale; it depends negatively on the magnitude of the trade costs. Hence, the model accommodates high levels of intra-industry trade among countries with similar level of development, as well as high levels of inter-industry trade among countries with different technologies.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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