Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (37 p)
Edition:
2012 World Bank eLibrary
Parallel Title:
Melise Jaud Finance, Comparative Advantage, and Resource Allocation
DDC:
305
Keywords:
Finanzsektor
;
Institutionelle Infrastruktur
;
Allokation
;
Komparativer Vorteil
;
Internationaler Markt
;
USA
Abstract:
The authors show that exported products exit the US market sooner if they violate the Heckscher-Ohlin notion of comparative advantage. Crucially, this pattern is stronger when exporting country has a well-developed banking system, measured by a high ratio of bank credit over the GDP. Banks thus push firms away from exports that are facing an uphill battle on a competitive foreign market due to a suboptimal use of the domestic factor endowment. The results imply a disciplining role for bank credit in terminating inefficient trade flows. This constitutes a new channel through which finance improves resource allocation in the real economy
DOI:
10.1596/1813-9450-6111
URL:
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