Substitution in Markusen ' s classic trade and factor movement complementarity models, Vol. 1 of 1

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Substitution in Markusen's classic trade and factor movement complementarity models

Author:	Schiff, Maurice;	Collection Title:	Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 3974
Country:	World;	Date Stored:	2006/07/24
Document Date:	2006/08/01	Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English	Region:	The World Region
Report Number:	WPS3974	SubTopics:	Economic Theory & Research; Free Trade; Trade Policy; International Trade and Trade Rules; Trade Law
Volume No:	1 of 1

Summary: Mundell and Markusen each wrote classic papers on the relationship between trade and factor movement. Mundell showed that substitution holds in the Heckscher-Ohlin model. Markusen challenged the substitution result and showed in five different models that removing barriers to factor movement results in complementarity under free trade, identical factor endowments, and a change in any one of the other assumptions underlying the Heckscher-Ohlin model. The author generalizes Markusen's analysis by considering the liberalization of barriers to factor movement under any non-negative level of protection, and liberalizing trade barriers under factor mobility. He shows that (1) substitution holds at high protection levels, (2) complementarity holds at low protection levels, and (3) either substitution or complementarity hold under large tariff changes.


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