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TRADE AND GROWTH IN A TWO‐COUNTRY MODEL WITH HOME PRODUCTION AND UNEVEN TECHNOLOGICAL SPILLOVERS
Author(s) -
BONATTI LUIGI,
FELICE GIULIA
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the manchester school
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.361
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1467-9957
pISSN - 1463-6786
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9957.2010.02205.x
Subject(s) - economics , production (economics) , growth model , balance (ability) , international economics , goods and services , intermediate good , labour economics , market economy , macroeconomics , medicine , physical medicine and rehabilitation
We develop a two‐country growth model distinguishing between a market sector producing services that can also be home produced and a market sector producing goods without home‐produced substitutes. The former is a technologically ‘stagnant’ sector, while the latter is subject to learning‐by‐doing and technological spillovers. This distinction coincides in the model with the distinction between the sector producing non‐tradables and the sector producing internationally tradable goods. We study how differentials in labor tax rates across countries influence the mix of tradable and non‐tradable goods that characterizes the market output of each country, thus affecting their bilateral trade balance and growth rates.