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(DP 1990-04) Parcellised Capital and Underdevelopment: An Interpretation of the Specific-Factors Model

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Title (DP 1990-04) Parcellised Capital and Underdevelopment: An Interpretation of the Specific-Factors Model
 
Creator de Dios, Emmanuel S.
 
Description Where capital markets are undeveloped and political differences among capital owners predominate, capital becomes "parcellised" and is, for all intents and purposes, "specific" to the parcel. The familiar specific-factors model then becomes applicable. Parcellisation results in lower output and wages. Openness to world capital markets accentuates these effects as well as leads to the paradox of capital flight even from a capital-scarce country. Unproductive rent-seeking activities to defend one's parcel and to acquire others lead to a Cournot-Nash equilibrium which may be Pareto-inferior.
 
Publisher UPSE Discussion Papers
 
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Date 2010-08-28
 
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.econ.upd.edu.ph/dp/index.php/dp/article/view/229
 
Source UPSE Discussion Papers; 1990
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.econ.upd.edu.ph/dp/index.php/dp/article/view/229/306