International Trade with Lumpy Countries
International Trade with Lumpy Countries
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与块状国家的国际贸易
DOI：
10.1086/261813
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发表时间：
1992
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Alan V. Deardorff
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作者：
P. Courant;Alan V. Deardorff
本文探讨了国家内部地区间差异对国际贸易格局的影响--我们称之为“块状”。如果生产要素在各地区的分布非常不均匀，那么整个国家的贸易格局可能会与要素均匀分布时的情况背道而驰。因此，要素地理分布的不统一可能是贸易的一个决定因素。我们特别指出，如果贸易的其他决定因素不存在，那么一个国家将倾向于出口大量使用其较笨拙(即分布更不均匀)因素的商品。
This paper explores the implications for the pattern of international trade of differences among regions within countries--what we call "lumpiness." If factors of production are sufficiently unevenly distributed across regions, then the pattern of trade of the country as a whole may depart from what it would have been had factors been evenly distributed. Thus lumpiness in the geographical distribution of factors can be a determinant of trade. We show in particular that if other determinants of trade are absent, then a country will tend to export the good that intensively uses its lumpier (i.e., more unevenly distributed) factor.