Past empirical failures of the basic Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek (HOV) model related to the inability of data to meet its restrictive assumptions, particularly identical international technologies and factor price equalization. Trefler (1993) tried to resuscitate HOV by introducing a simple...

The growth of Chinese exports in market share over the past two decades is a singular event in the history of world trade. Using data from 1995-2010, we document this growth in a variety of ways. We show that the expanded trade is pervasive. Virtually every country in the world has seen China...