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Author: | Eckel, C. |
Title: | Endogenous sunk costs, flexible manufacturing and the productivity effects of international trade |
Journal: | Scandinavian Journal of Economics
2009 : VOL. 111:2, p. 369-386 |
Index terms: | flexible manufacturing systems international trade productivity R&D |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | The productivity effects of international trade are addressed in the presence of flexible manufacturing and endogenous sunk costs (cost-reducing R&D). It is shown that international trade raises R&D expenditures, but this will not necessarily boost productivity because of possibly counteracting market structure effects. |
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