The DOI matches its Crossref record.
Learning by Doing and the Dynamic Effects of International Trade
Open accessAbstract
Using an endogenous growth model in which learning by doing, although bounded in each good, exhibits spillovers across goods, this paper investigates the dynamic effects of international trade. Examining the interaction of an LDC and a DC, the latter distinguished by a higher initial level of knowledge, I find that under free trade the LDC (DC) experiences rates of technical progress and GDP growth less than or equal (greater than or equal) to those enjoyed under autarky. Since both countries enjoy the usual static gains from trade, free trade may, nevertheless, improve the welfare of LDC consumers.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cited by
Economic Reform and the Process of Global Integration
Sachs, J. D., Warner, A., Aslund, A., & Fischer, S. (1995) · Brookings Papers on Economic Activity · doi:10.2307/2534573 · Cited by 4,950
Trade, Foreign Investment, and Industrial Policy for Developing Countries*
Harrison, A., & Rodríguez-Clare, A. (2010) · Handbook of Development Economics · doi:10.1016/b978-0-444-52944-2.00001-x · Cited by 595
Easterly, W., Kremer, M., Pritchett, L., & Summers, L. H. (1993) · Journal of Monetary Economics · doi:10.1016/0304-3932(93)90026-c · Cited by 561
Learning by doing and the Dutch disease
Torvik, R. (2001) · European Economic Review · doi:10.1016/s0014-2921(99)00071-9 · Cited by 529
Slow Convergence? The New Endogenous Growth Theory and Regional Development*
Martin, R., & Sunley, P. (1998) · Economic Geography · doi:10.1111/j.1944-8287.1998.tb00113.x · Cited by 470
Metadata
- Authors
- Young, A.
- Venue
- The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1991-05
- Volume
- 106
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 369
- ISSN
- 0033-5533 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2891950355
- Cited by
- 1,333
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 69.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Learning by Doing and the Dynamic Effects of International Trade. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.2307/2937942
- The paper
- Young, A. (1991). Learning by Doing and the Dynamic Effects of International Trade. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. https://doi.org/10.2307/2937942
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
