1、国际经济学教师手册及课后习题答案克鲁格曼第六版imch 国际经济学教师手册及课后习题答案(克鲁格曼,第六版)imch HAPTER 6 ECONOMIES OF SCALE, IMPERFECT COMPETITION, AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE Chapter Organization Economies of Scale and International Trade: An Overview Economies of Scale and Market Structure The Theory of Imperfect Competition Monopoly: A
2、Brief Review Monopolistic Competition Limitations of the Monopolistic Competition Model Monopolistic Competition and Trade The Effects of Increased Market Size Gains from an Integrated Market: A Numerical Example Economies of Scale and Comparative Advantage The Significance of Intraindustry Trade Wh
3、y Intraindustry Trade Matters Case Study: Intraindustry Trade in Action: The North American Auto Pact Dumping The Economics of Dumping Case Study: AntiDumping as Protection Reciprocal Dumping The Theory of External Economies Specialized Suppliers Labor Market Pooling Knowledge Spillovers External Ec
4、onomies and Increasing Returns External Economies and International Trade External Economies and the Pattern of Trade Trade and Welfare with External Economies Box: Tinseltown Economics Dynamic Increasing Returns Summary 35 Appendix: Determining Marginal Revenue CHAPTER OVERVIEW In previous chapters
5、, trade between nations was motivated by their differences in factor productivity or relative factor endowments. The type of trade which occurred, for example of food for manufactures, is based on comparative advantage and is called interindustry trade. This chapter introduces trade based on economi
6、es of scale in production. Such trade in similar productions is called intraindustry trade, and describes, for example, the trading of one type of manufactured good for another type of manufactured good. It is shown that trade can occur when there are no technological or endowment differences, but w
7、hen there are economies of scale or increasing returns in production. Economies of scale can either take the form of 1) external economies whereby the cost per unit depends on the size of the industry but not necessarily on the size of the firm; or as 2) internal economies, whereby the production co
8、st per unit of output depends on the size of the individual firm but not necessarily on the size of the industry. Internal economies of scale give rise to imperfectly competitive markets, unlike the perfectly competitive market structures that were assumed to exist in earlier chapters. This motivate
9、s the review of models of imperfect competition, including monopoly and monopolistic competition. The instructor should spend some time making certain that students understand the equilibrium concepts of these models since they are important for the justification of intraindustry trade. In markets d
10、escribed by monopolistic competition, there are a number of firms in an industry, each of which produces a differentiated product. Demand for its good depends on the number of other similar products available and their prices. This type of model is useful for illustrating that trade improves the tra
11、de-off between scale and variety available to a country. In an industry described by monopolistic competition, a larger market - such as that which arises through international trade - lowers average price (by increasing production and lowering average costs) and makes available for consumption a gr
12、eater range of goods. While an integrated markets also supports the existence of a larger number of firms in an industry, the model presented in the text does not make predictions about where these industries will be located. It is also interesting to compare the distributional effects of trade when
13、 motivated by comparative advantage with those when trade is motivated by increasing returns to scale in 36 production. When countries are similar in their factor endowments, and when scale economies and product differentiation are important, the income distributional effects of trade will be small.
14、 You should make clear to the students the sharp contrast between the predictions of the models of monopolistic competition and the specific factors and Heckscher-Ohlin theories of international trade. Without clarification, some students may find the contrasting predictions of these models confusin
15、g. Another important issue related to imperfectly competitive markets is the practice of price discrimination, namely charging different customers different prices. One particularly controversial form of price discrimination is dumping, whereby a firm charges lower prices for exported goods than for
16、 goods sold domestically. This can occur only when domestic and foreign markets are segmented. While there is no good economic justification for the view that dumping is harmful, it is often viewed as an unfair trade practice. The other type of economies of scale, external economies, has very different economic implications than internal economies. Since external economies of scale occur at the industry level
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