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Specialization and the volume of trade: Do the data obey the laws?

Harrigan, James - 2001

The core subjects of trade theory are the pattern and volume of trade: which goods are traded by which countries, and how much of those goods are traded. The first part of this paper discusses evidence on comparative advantage, with an emphasis on carefully connecting theoretical models with...

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Heckscher-Ohlin theory when countries have different technologies

Fisher, Eric O'N. - 2010

Rethinking the foundations of Heckscher-Ohlin theory when countries have different technologies, this paper shows how to make the proper adjustments for international productivity differences. The central tool is a factor conversion matrix that computes the local factor content of foreign...

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Industrialisation et transformation structurelle : l'Afrique sub-saharienne peut-elle se développer sans usines ?

Cadot, Olivier; de Melo, Jaime; Plane, Patrick; Wagner, … - 2015

Avec une croissance soutenue, une vague d'investissements directs étrangers sans précédent, et un net recul de la pauvreté, le bilan des quinze dernières années est largement positif pour l'Afrique sub-saharienne. Ce regain de croissance, qui s'est accompagné de réformes économiques...

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Rapid Growth in the CIS: Is It Sustainable?

Iradian, Garbis - 2007

This paper analyses some of the main factors behind the recent rapid growth in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the prospects for its continuation. Two approaches are used. The first approach uses growth accounting exercises to estimate the total factor productivity (TFP) growth...

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Who Is Against Immigration? : A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants

Mayda, Anna Maria - 2004

This paper empirically analyzes both economic and non-economic determinants of attitudes toward immigrants, within and across countries. The two individual-level survey data sets used, covering a wide range of developed and developing countries, make it possible to test for interactive effects...

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Trade Labor, Market Rigidities, and Government-Financed Technological Change

Koeniger, Winfried - 2001

of labor market institutions and government intervention. In particular, technology change is induced by rigid wage …

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Factor supplies and specialization in the world economy

Harrigan, James; Zakrajések, Egon - 2000

A core prediction of the Heckscher-Ohlin theory is that countries specialize in goods in which they have a comparative advantage, and that the source of comparative advantage is differences in relative factor supplies. To examine this theory, we use the most extensive data set available and...

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Structural development accounting

Gancia, Gino; Müller, Andreas; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2011

: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local …, costly adoption and spillovers from the world technology frontier. Despite its parsimonious parametrization, our empirical … technology adoption would increase the output per worker of the average non-OECD country relative to the US from 0.19 to 0 …

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The global welfare impact of China: Trade integration and technological change

Di Giovanni, Julian; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Zhang, Jing - 2013

This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of China's trade integration and technological change in a quantitative Ricardian-Heckscher-Ohlin model implemented on 75 countries. We simulate two alternative productivity growth scenarios: a balanced one in which China's productivity grows at the...

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Trade and the distribution of human capital

Bougheas, Spiros P.; Riezman, Raymond - 2005

We develop a two-country, two-sector model of trade where the only difference between the two countries is their distribution of human capital endowments. We show that even if the two countries have identical aggregate human capital endowments the pattern of trade depends on the properties of...

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