Globalization and the Inequality of Nations.

Working paper

A monopolistically competitive manufacturing sector produces goods used for final consumption and as intermediates. Intermediate usage creates cost and demand linkages between firms and a tendency for manufacturing agglomeration. How does globalization affect the location of manufacturing and gains from trade? At high transport costs all countries have some manufacturing, but when transport costs fall below a critical value a core-periphery pattern spontaneously forms, and nations that find themselves in the periphery suffer a decline in real income. At still lower transport costs there is convergence of real incomes, in which peripheral nations gain and core nations may lose.

Authors: Krugman, P; Venables, A

• Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
• Host title: NBER Working Papers
• Volume: 5098
• Series: NBER Working Papers
• Place of publication: Inc, NBER Working Papers
• Publication date: 1995-01-01
• Paper number: 5098
• Language: English