On the origins of comparative advantage

This paper proposes a simple theory of international trade with endogenous productivity differences across countries. The core of our analysis lies in the determinants of the division of labor. We consider a world economy comprising two large countries, with a continuum of goods and one factor of pr...

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Main Author: Costinot, Arnaud
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51726
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5503-297X