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International Trade and Open Access Renewable Resources: The Small Open Economy Case / James A. Brander, M. Scott Taylor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brander, James A.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w5021.
- NBER working paper series no. w5021
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- International Trade and Open Access Renewable Resources
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1995.
- Summary:
- This paper develops a two-sector general equilibrium model of an economy with an open access renewable resource. We characterize the autarkic steady state, showing that autarky prices (and 'comparative advantage') are determined by the ratio of intrinsic resource growth to labor. Under free trade, steady state trade and production patterns for a small open economy are determined by whether the resource good's world price exceeds its autarky price. Strikingly, if the small country exports the resource good while remaining diversified, then steady-state utility is lower than in autarky, and increases in the world price of exports are welfare-reducing.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- February 1995.
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