Within the Stolper-Samuelson (SS) framework, a vast empirical literature has developed around the issue of determining …

factor productivity data shows that the Balassa-Samuelson effect explains the estimated long run trends in most countries. …

Within the Stolper-Samuelson (SS) framework, a vast empirical literature has developed around the issue of determining …

Samuelson rule to explain the distribution of military expenditures across countries over time. According to the constant … defence burden interpretation of the Samuelson rule, corresponding to the diagonal in the Lorenz diagram, the defence burdens … explained by the Samuelson rule. We then go beyond the Samuelson rule to see which countries spend much more or less than …

This paper studies the Balassa-Samuelson effects in two areas with strong differences in economic development, sixteen …