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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Heckscher Ohlin"”.
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An interregional test of the Heckscher-Ohlin theory : the case of Japan
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1996.
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Essays in international trade
… It combines a many-country version of the Heckscher-Ohlin model with a continuum of goods developed by Dornbusch-Fischer-Samuelson (1980) with the Krugman (1980) model of monopolistic competition and transport costs. The commodity structure of production and bilateral trade is fully …
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Environmental regulation as a determinant of trade: an empirical investigation of the "Pollution Haven Hypothesis" in the context of international trade
This paper applies an augmented version of the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek model to a broad cross section of countries for the period 2001 to 2011, providing evidence that a country's environmental regulatory regime has an influence on the energy content of trade. These results conform to predictions …
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The effects of trade liberalization on gender inequality in Central America and its relevance to the textile and apparel industry and academy
… Inequality Index (GII). This study used the Heckscher-Ohlin (1933) theory of international trade and the Becker (2010) theory of economic discrimination to examine the impact of CAFTA-DR and TA trade on gender (in)equality in CA. To achieve this purpose, the study used a mixed-methods …
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Can Neoclassical Trade Theory Explain Congressional Voting?
… on the neoclassical concepts, specifically the Heckscher-Ohlin and Stolper-Samuelson corollary theorems, is outlined. After an analysis using a logit estimation method, it is revealed that there is conflicting evidence whether the voting on the 2011 free trade agreements follow the initial …
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The Arc Models.
… offer curves; the standard trade model, the Heckscher-Ohlin model including Findlay-Grubert diagrams, the 3-Factor model, and the specific-factors model.
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Essays on the Factor Content of Trade and Education
… regarding this topic was developed by Eli Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin, and is the well-known Heckscher-Ohlin framework. This theory implies that the factor content of the goods a country trades is related to its factor endowment. In this chapter I explore the relevance of this model and I …
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Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership a ‘Natural’ Trade Bloc?
… However, this paper hypothesizes that the Heckscher – Ohlin trade model would predict that this agreement is a ‘natural’ trade bloc, as this model can be applied to trade between countries at different levels of economic development, which are present amongst the signed and negotiating …
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The impact of trade liberalisation on wages in the South African manufacturing sector between 2000 and 2007
… of protection. In addition, we go beyond the Heckscher - Ohlin - Samuelson framework and investigate whether or not the impact of union bargaining power on wages in a given industry is conditional upon the level of protection. The analysis is conducted using LFS household survey data in …
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Essays in labor economics
… consistent with the predictions of the Heckscher-Ohlin model. The second chapter examines the effect of the division of labor on the demand for information processing. I find that manufacturing industries with a more complex division of labor employ relatively more clerks, who process …
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The Impact of Import Competition from China on the Skill-Bias of Manufacturing Employment across South African Regions between 2001 and 2011
… study follows on from two theories of trade: the Heckscher-Ohlin theory with its Stopler-Samuelson theorem, and specific factor theories. The identification method employed in this study was developed by Autor, Dorn and Hansen (2013) and seeks to exploit variation across South African …
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Impacto de las barreras a la exportación en el desarrollo de Pymes agroexportadoras peruanas
… the Adam Smith theory, the Ricardian model, the Heckscher-Ohlin model, among others. Although there are previous studies on SMEs around the world, there are very few studies carried out on those within the Latin American territory that allow rethinking new policies or incentives that allow them …
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Some aspects of the pure theory of international trade
… costs [107] and in connection with the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem that a country's exports use intensively the country's abundant factor of production [108; 109]> id is scarcely noticeable among the great bulk of pure theory writings which are concerned with the formulation of ' logically …
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Some aspects of the pure theory of international trade
… costs [107] and in connection with the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem that a country's exports use intensively the country's abundant factor of production [108; 109]> id is scarcely noticeable among the great bulk of pure theory writings which are concerned with the formulation of ' logically …
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Trade, fiscal transfers, diversity and the resource curse : evidence from Canada and the US
… uphold the Linder-hypothesis, but refute the Heckscher-Ohlin factor endowment proposition. Chapter 3 focuses on the relative importance of fiscal redistribution and trade openness in the economic growth analysis of Canada and the US. Using a dynamic panel of Canada-US data, we estimate the …
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SSA's Development Delay: Three Essays on The Monetary System, The International Trade and Property Rights
… second chapter analyses the implications of the Heckscher-Ohlin (HO) theory of factor abundance and the increasing return to scale (IRS) theory of product differentiation in the bilateral trade within SSA. It shows that the similarity of the factors of production proportions and the lack of …
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Essays on Trade and China's Economy
… Eaton-Kortum trade framework that includes both Heckscher-Ohlin and Ricardian comparative advantage. By comparing the baseline stationary equilibrium to a hypothetical one where China’s fertility and survival rates align with those of the rest of the world, I find that a higher fertility rate …
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Essays on environmental regulations and international economics.
… of Copeland and Taylor (1995) two-country Heckscher-Ohlin model of trade with global pollution by incorporating an environment where the incentive to trade is based on differential factor endowments rather than differential environmental standards. First, I show that the model's predictions …
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La competitividad del sector construcción de El Salvador y de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica en el marco del DR-CAFTA, 1990-2005.
… el más estudiado con autores como David Ricardo, Heckscher-Ohlin, Paul Krugman, así como las Nuevas Teorías del Comercio Internacional, pero también existen enfoques que no se basan en estática comparativa como el de ventaja absoluta de Adam Smith que incorpora elementos que vuelven el análisis …
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Do Globalization and China’s WTO Accession Affect Social Spending in Its Eleven Neighboring Countries? An Empirical Study of the China Shock
… in its neighboring countries.</p> <p>The Heckscher–Ohlin–Samuelson model (HOS) states that relatively abundant factor endowments enable a country to gain from trade while relatively scarce factor endowments cause an economy to lose, and that trade can entail income distributive issues. …