Purpose – The present note shows the interaction between technological differences between countries and the level of trade costs as a determinant of trade patterns. Methodology/approach – It takes the work of Kikuchi et al.'s (2008) Chamberlinian–Ricardian model as its point of departure,...

Based on the Jones (1971) model, we construct two dynamic models of international trade in which the rate of time preference is either constant or time-varying. The main purpose is to study whether and under what conditions the results derived in the Jones model still hold in the dynamic...

This paper derives sufficient conditions under which the Law of Comparative Advantage and the General Law of Comparative Advantage are true when the preferences of the trading countries may not be represented by "well-behaved" social utility functions. It shows that in the neoclassical framework...