《Increasing Returns and All That-- A View from Trade》.pdf

Increasing Returns and All That: A View from Trade Werner Antweiler; Daniel Trefler The American Economic Review, Vol. 92, No. 1. (Mar., 2002), pp. 93-119. Stable URL: /sici?sici=0002-82822992%3A1%3C93%3AIRAATA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23 The American Economic Review is currently published by American Economic Association. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTORs Terms and Conditions of Use, available at /about/terms.html. JSTORs Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at /journals/aea.html. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is an independent not-for-profit organization dedicated to and preserving a digital archive of scholarly journals. For more information regarding JSTOR, please contact support@. Tue Jan 16 07:00:33 2007 Increasing Returns and All That: A View from Trade Do scale economies help to explain international trade jlows? Using a large database on output, trade jlows, andfactor endowments, wefind that allowing for the presence of increasing returns to scale inproduction significantly increases our ability to predict international trade jlows. In particular, using trade data, wefind tha