Market Size, Trade, and Productivity

# Market Size, Trade, and Productivity > OpenAlex Metadata Hub · https://openalex.org/W3123373508 ## Bibliographic - **DOI:** — - **Year:** 2005 - **Citations:** 2885 - **Open Access:** No (closed) - **License:** — - **Source:** http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.598.7863 ## Authors - Centro Studi - Marc J. Melitz - Marc J. Melitz ## Abstract We develop a monopolistically competitive model of trade with firm heterogeneity- in terms of productivity differences- and endogenous differences in the ‘toughness ’ of competition across markets- in terms of the number and average productivity of competing firms. We analyze how these features vary across markets of different size that are not perfectly integrated through trade; we then study the effects of different trade liberalization policies. In our model, market size and trade affect the toughness of competition, which then feeds back into the selection of heterogeneous producers and exporters in that market. Aggregate productivity and average markups thus respond to both the size of a market and the extent of its integration through trade (larger, more integrated markets exhibit higher productivity and lower markups). Our model remains highly tractable, even when extended to a general framework with multiple asymmetric countries integrated to different extents through asymmetric trade costs. We believe this provides a useful modeling framework that is particularly well suited to the analysis of trade and regional integration policy scenarios in an environment with heterogeneous firms and endogenous markups. ## Keywords Productivity, Economics, Competition (biology), Market size, Trade barrier, Free trade, Commercial policy, Liberalization, Economic integration, Industrial organization, Microeconomics, International economics, Macroeconomics, Market economy ## Concepts - Productivity - Economics - Competition (biology) - Market size - Trade barrier - Free trade - Commercial policy - Liberalization - Economic integration - Industrial organization - Microeconomics - International economics - Macroeconomics - Market economy - Ecology - Biology --- *Metadata only — full text not imported unless Open Access license permits.*

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