{"title":"Trade Between Countries with Radically Different Preferences","authors":"Koji Shimomura, M. Kemp","doi":"10.4324/9780203927168.ch3","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We examine the role of radical international differences in preferences in determining patterns of international trade, given that the trading countries share a common technology and identical factor endowment ratios. It is characteristic of our model that the equilibrium autarkic commodity price ratios are unique and negative and that there is a unique positive equilibrium free-trade price ratio, implying that the positive equilibrium free-trade price ratio is not bounded by the equilibrium autarkic price ratios. This finding contrasts sharply with the familiar Torrens-Ricardo and Heckscher-Ohlin propositions","PeriodicalId":47355,"journal":{"name":"Economics Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2005-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Economics Bulletin","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203927168.ch3","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Economics, Econometrics and Finance","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We examine the role of radical international differences in preferences in determining patterns of international trade, given that the trading countries share a common technology and identical factor endowment ratios. It is characteristic of our model that the equilibrium autarkic commodity price ratios are unique and negative and that there is a unique positive equilibrium free-trade price ratio, implying that the positive equilibrium free-trade price ratio is not bounded by the equilibrium autarkic price ratios. This finding contrasts sharply with the familiar Torrens-Ricardo and Heckscher-Ohlin propositions
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