Technological Improvements and Comparative Advantage Reconsidered

11 Pages Posted: 29 Sep 2006

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Yochanan Shachmurove

City University of New York, CUNY City College of New York - Department of Economics; The University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics

Uriel Spiegel

Bar-Ilan University - Department of Management

Date Written: September 2006

Abstract

Given a world consisting of two countries, two commodities, and two consumers, this paper analyzes the potential effects of the current global trend of shifting world productions with regards to consumer goods. When technological improvements occur in a developing country, would terms of trade remain favorable for a developed country? Would both countries benefit? Instances where one or both countries benefit are feasible. However the developed country may lose as a result of an improvement in the production of the good that previously had been exported by the developed country.

Keywords: International trade, Samuelson, autarky equilibrium, comparative advantage, endowment shock

JEL Classification: F0, F1, O, O1, O3, D51

Suggested Citation

Shachmurove, Yochanan and Spiegel, Uriel, Technological Improvements and Comparative Advantage Reconsidered (September 2006). PIER Working Paper No. 06-023, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=933647 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.933647

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