期刊名称：Discussion Papers / School of Business, University of New South Wales
出版年度：2008
卷号：2008
出版社：Sydney
摘要：An extended small open economy model is developed and used to examine the
e®ect of trade on the illicit expropriation of incomes and the provision of legal
services. We derive conditions under which trade liberalization will reduce expro-
priation activities. We also derive su±cient conditions for the gains from trade to
be ampli¯ed or muted relative to the standard model. The signs of these e®ects
depend on factor intensity rankings and factor abundance ratios. Thus the results
show that trade liberalization will be bene¯cial to countries that export labor in-
tensive goods by reducing the incentives for illicit expropriation and reducing the
costs of providing legal services. The model also shows that trade liberalization
can increase expropriation, particularly for countries that import labor intensive
goods and have labor intensive crime problems.
关键词：Expropriation, Factor Proportions, Gains from Trade, Legal Ser-
vices.
