Affiliation:
1. Indian Institute of Foreign Trade Kolkata India
2. Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hung Hom Hong Kong
3. CTRPFP at CSSSC Kolkata India
4. CESifo Munich Germany
5. Graduate School of Economics Kobe University Kobe Japan
Abstract
AbstractThe theory of wage fund as the basic source of financial capital or credit is incorporated into a dynamic Ricardian trade model consisting of three classes of agents: the workers, the capitalist, and the producers of goods. We derive the modified golden rule based on a significantly different mechanism from the standard optimal growth framework. We show that, although international trade in a static setting in the wage fund framework has asymmetric distributional effects on the agents' welfare, those asymmetric impacts are nullified in the dynamic setting. In fact, trade liberalization is Pareto improving along the balanced growth path.
Funder
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Subject
Economics and Econometrics