2021/27 | LEM Working Paper Series | ||||||||||||||||
International Trade and Technological Competition in Markets with Dynamic Increasing Returns |
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Luca Fontanelli, Mattia Guerini and Mauro Napoletano |
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International trade; industrial dynamics; firm dynamics; market selection; Pólya urn.
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C15, F1, L1
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Abstract | |||||||||||||||||
We build a simple dynamic model to study the effects of technological learning, market selection
and international competition in the determination of export flows and market shares. The
model features two countries populated by firms with heterogeneous productivity levels and
sales. Market selection in each country is driven by a finite pairwise Pólya urn process. We show
that market selection leads either to a national or to an international monopoly in presence of
a static distribution of firm productivity levels. We then incorporate firm learning and
entry-exit in the model and we show that the market structure does not converge to a monopoly.
In addition, we show that the extended model is able to jointly reproduce a wide ensemble of
stylized facts concerning intra-industry trade, industry and firm dynamics.
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