Capital market imperfections and trade liberalization in general equilibrium

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This paper develops a new international trade model with firm-specific credit frictions and endogenous borrowing costs in general equilibrium. We highlight new implications of globalization when general equilibrium effects on capital markets are present. In particular, we show that globalization increases the share of financially constrained firms and affects producers very differently depending on their exposure to credit frictions. While the positive effect of globalization dominates for unconstrained firms, higher borrowing costs and tougher competition especially hurt credit-rationed producers. We show that these new adjustments increase the heterogeneity among firms and reduce welfare gains from trade. Our theory is consistent with new empirical patterns from World Bank firm-level data. We show that credit frictions are positively related to the degree of product competition and to the variance of sales across firms.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftJournal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Jahrgang145
Seiten (von - bis)402-423
Anzahl der Seiten22
ISSN0167-2681
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PublikationsstatusErschienen - 01.2018
Extern publiziertJa

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We thank Daniel Baumgarten, Ron Davies, Swati Dhingra, Carsten Eckel, Hartmut Egger, Gabriel Felbermayr, Lisandra Flach, Udo Kreickemeier, Eduardo Morales, Monika Schnitzer, Jens Suedekum, Alexander Tarasov, and Jens Wrona, as well as participants of the Munich “IO and Trade seminar”, Workshop “Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen” in Goettingen, BGPE Research Workshop in Passau, Annual Conference of the European Trade Study Group in Paris, FIW Research Conference in Vienna, HSE Workshop “International Trade and Spatial Economics” in Saint Petersburg, Annual Congress of the European Economic Association in Geneva, and the Annual Conference of the German Economic Association in Augsburg for helpful comments and suggestions. Financial support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through SFB/TR15 is gratefully acknowledged.

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