Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/154057 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 1624
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
In this paper, I investigate the welfare effects that developed countries experience after productivity improvements occur in their emerging trading partners, using a two-country model featuring pro-competitive effects of trade and asymmetries in technology. I model the technology advantage of the developed country, assuming that the productivity distribution its firms draw from stochastically dominates that of the emerging country. Calibrated to match aggregate and firm level statistics of the US economy, the model predicts that the country with better technology has a higher productivity cut-off level, higher average productivity and higher welfare. Productivity improvements in the emerging country generate selection and raise welfare everywhere, with both the selection effect and the positive welfare effect being stronger in the emerging country. Finally, trade liberalization is associated with more selection and higher welfare in both the developed and the emerging country.
Subjects: 
asymmetric countries
endogenous market structure
productivity improvements
welfare
JEL: 
F12
F62
O33
I31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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