Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/121124 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
FIW Working Paper No. 124
Publisher: 
FIW - Research Centre International Economics, Vienna
Abstract: 
We develop a two-factor, two-sector trade model of monopolistic competition with variable elasticity of substitution. Firm profit and firm size may increase or decrease with market integration depending on the degree of asymmetry between countries. The country in which capital is relatively abundant is a net exporter of the manufactured good, while both firms' size and profits are lower in this country than in the country where capital is relatively scarce. By contrast, the pricing policy adopted by firms does not depend on capital endowment and country asymmetry. It is determined by the nature of preferences: when demand elasticity increases (decreases) with consumption, firms practice dumping (reverse-dumping).
Subjects: 
two-factor trade model
monopolistic competition
capital asymmetry
variable markups
JEL: 
F12
F13
L13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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