Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/159565 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Quaderni - Working Paper DSE No. 724
Publisher: 
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche (DSE), Bologna
Abstract: 
We argue that it is the number of agents holding market power, rather than the presence of market power itself, that may force Ricardian economies into autarchy. We apply the concepts of monopoly equilibrium by Baldwin (1948) to the model of Cordella and Gabszewicz (1997) to show that, differently from the oligopoly case, trade always arises at a monopoly equilibrium whereas autarchy is never an outcome. As a consequence, monopoly Pareto-dominates oligopoly.
JEL: 
F10
D42
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Document Type: 
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