Monopolistic Competition and International Trade: Reconsidering the Evidence

In this paper, we test some propositions about international trade flows that are derived from a model of monopolistic competition developed by Elhanan Helpman. We investigate whether the volume of trade between OECD countries is consistent with the predictions of a modal in which all trade is intra

本文检验了若干源自埃尔哈南·赫尔普曼（Elhanan Helpman）提出的垄断竞争（monopolistic competition）模型的国际贸易流量命题。我们考察经济合作与发展组织（OECD）成员国之间的贸易量是否与所有贸易均为intra的模型预测相一致。