Does Economic Geography Matter for International Specialization?

There are two principal theories of why countries trade : comparative advantage and increasing returns to scale. Yet there is no empirical work that assesses the relative importance of these two theories in accounting for production structure and trade. We use a framework that nests an increasing returns model of economic geography featuring "home market" effects with that of Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek.

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Year of publication:	1996
Authors:	Davis, D-R ; Weinstein, D-E
Institutions:	Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics
Subject:	INTERNATIONAL TRADE

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Series:	Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	44 pages
Classification:	F14 - Country and Industry Studies of Trade ; F11 - Neoclassical Models of Trade
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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