Country-Specific Communications Networks and International Trade in a Model of Monopolistic Competition
Country-Specific Communications Networks and International Trade in a Model of Monopolistic Competition
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垄断竞争模型中的特定国家通信网络和国际贸易
DOI：
10.1111/1468-5876.00220
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发表时间：
2002
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T. Kikuchi
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作者：
T. Kikuchi
本研究发展了一个垄断竞争模型，该模型抓住了特定国家通信网络在决定国家比较优势方面的作用。通信网络的特点是：(1)存在较大的建设固定成本；(2)采用平均成本定价的公共垄断。研究表明，一国的规模决定了一国的比较优势，以该国生产要素禀赋的大小来衡量。在需要通信网络提供服务的商品方面，两个国家中较大的一方拥有比较优势。
This study develops a model of monopolistic competition that captures the role of country specific communications networks in determining the comparative advantages of countries. A communications network is characterized by (1) the existence of a large fixed cost for its construction; and (2) a public monopoly that employs average cost pricing. It is demonstrated that the size of a country, measured by the size of the country's endowment of factors of production, determines its comparative advantage. A comparative advantage in the goods that require services provided by a communications network is held by the larger of two countries.