The Impact of Trade on Intra-Industry Reallocations and Aggregate Industry Productivity.

Melitz, M. J. (2003). The Impact of Trade on Intra-Industry Reallocations and Aggregate Industry Productivity. Econometrica, 71(6), 1695-1725.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2003

Volume

71

Issue

6

Pages

1695-1725

ISSN

1468-0262

DOI

10.1111/1468-0262.00467

DOI registrant

The Econometric Society

Link

https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0262.00467

Cited from

economics_finance, systems_cybernetics

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.

Primes

• Constraint Release
  • The enemy-release hypothesis from ecology ports to trade liberalization revealing suppressed competitive capacity

    This sourceModels how trade liberalization reveals and reallocates suppressed competitive capacity across heterogeneous firms.

    Supported in partVerified against the work's full text

    Shows trade liberalization reallocating market share toward more productive firms; it has no ecology or enemy-release link and does not frame this as unmasking suppressed capacity.

    “The model thus explains how trade can generate industry productivity growth”

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• Gains from Trade
  • Extending the firm-heterogeneity perspective of Melitz (2003) beyond international trade, the abstraction's structural roles map cleanly onto non-economic substrates.

    This sourceFirm-heterogeneity model in which trade reallocates resources to more-productive firms, raising aggregate productivity; supports both the Knowledge-Transfer mapping (firm-heterogeneity perspective) and the T5 tension (specialization concentrating capacity in high-productivity firms, raising tail-risk).

    Supported in partVerified against the work's full text

    Melitz shows trade shifts resources and market share toward more productive firms, raising aggregate productivity; he does not show this raises tail-risk or systemic fragility.

    “lead to additional inter-firm reallocations towards more productive firms”

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Domain-specific

• New trade theory
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