This article considers a model of international trade in which the number of produced commodities does not exceed the number of countries engaged in trade. Technology is modeled such that each commodity can be produced in each country from a finite series of dated labor inputs. The existence of...

Consider models of international trade in which capital goods are produced, not given as an unproduced endowment, and in which equilibrium interest rates are positive. A positive interest rate, in such a model, acts as a price distortion. Consequently, the gains of trade for a single country,...