Comparative Advantage, Trade, and Payments in a Ricardian Model with a Continuum of Goods.
This paper discusses Ricardian trade and payments theory in the case of a continuum of goods. The analysis thus extends the development of many-commodity, two-country comparative advantage analysis as presented, for example, in Gottfried Haberler (1937). Frank Graham (1923). Paul Samuelson (1964). a...
| Publicado en: | American Economic Review Vol. 67; no. 5; pp. 823 - 840 |
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