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Consumption efficiency hypothesis and the optimality of free trade policy in a small open economy

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  • Chaudhuri, Sarbajit
  • Banerjee, Dibyendu

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The paper is designed to examine the optimality of the free trade policy in a small poor economy incorporating the consumption efficiency hypothesis in the simple two-by-two Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson (HOS) framework. It finds that the protectionist policy in the form of a tariff on the capital-intensive import-competing sector may improve social welfare and unambiguously raise the economy-wide effective employment.

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  • Chaudhuri, Sarbajit & Banerjee, Dibyendu, 2007. "Consumption efficiency hypothesis and the optimality of free trade policy in a small open economy," MPRA Paper 4369, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    Keywords

    Consumption efficiency hypothesis; Optimality of free trade; Protectionist policy; Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model; Effective employment;
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    JEL classification:

    • J41 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Labor Contracts
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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