Implicit Mercantilism, Oligopoly, and Trade
Martin C. McGuire and Hiroshi Ohta
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Review of International Economics
165-184
February
2005
Abstract
The authors propose a new model of trade between developing and advanced economies to capture the effects of important asymmetries in the organizations of their industries. This model demonstrates how the industrial structure of a developing economy can evolve to produce what the authors call “implicit mercantilism.” Free entry plus domestic oligopoly in a developing economy, when combined with competitive behavior in developed countries, generates several distinct stages of mercantilism hitherto unrecognized in the literature.