Tariff Reductions, Trade Patterns and the Wage GAP in a Monopolistic Competition Model with Vertical Linkages
Mardi | 2014-03-18 salle des thèses Francesco DI COMITE – Antonella NOCCO – Gianluca OREFICE In this paper we develop a three-country monopolistic competition model with variable elasticity of substitution and vertical linkages to study the impact of trade liberalization on trade creation, trade diversion and labor market outcomes. This framework allows us to identify a source of gain from trade often neglected in the literature: cost savings on capital investments. Our model is empirically motivated by the observation that […]