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Offshoring and skill-upgrading in French manufacturing : a Heckscher-Ohlin-Melitz view
Carluccio, Juan; Cuñat, Alejandro; Fadinger, Harald; … - 2015
fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor …-intensive inputs to the labor-abundant countries than low-productivity firms. Differently from the traditional versions of factor … intensity across firms that is positively correlated with firm productivity. Using French firm-level data for the years 1996 to …
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Testing the general validity of the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem : the natural experiment of Japan
Bernhofen, Daniel M.; Brown, John Christopher - 2011
We exploit Japan's 19th century move from autarky to free trade to provide the first test of the general validity of the price formulation of the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem. In this formulation a country's autarky factor price vector imposes a single refutable prediction on the economy's factor...
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Comparative advantage in (non-)routine production
Archanskaia, Liza; Van Biesebroeck, Johannes; Willmann, … - 2020
We illustrate a new source of comparative advantage that is generated by countries' different ability to adjust to technological change. Our model introduces substitution of workers in codifiable (routine) tasks with more efficient machines, a process extensively documented in the labor...
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A complete characterization of the distributional effects of international outsourcing in the Heckscher-Ohlin model
Egger, Hartmut; Falkinger, Josef - 2001
This paper determines the distributional effects of internationaloutsourcing in a two sector Heckscher-Ohlin type model. It isshown that the factor-biased and the sector-biased impact ofinternational outsourcing discussed in the literature can be seenas special cases of the more general...
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Lumpy countries, urbanization, and trade
Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2011
Lumpiness of production factors within a country might overturn the predictions for the structure of trade by the factor-abundance (HO) model. Trade patterns, as predicted by this model, can both be magnified or reversed by uneven concentration of production factors within a country. Cities are...
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The comparative advantage of Dutch cities
Brakman, Steven; Hendrich, Tijl; Marrewijk, Charles van; … - 2020
The trade literature often treats countries as dimensionless points, which is a strong assumption. Agglomeration or lumpiness of production factors within countries can affect the national pattern of trade. In this paper we analyze comparative advantage patterns for 22 cities and 4 regions for...
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Trade, inequality and distribution-neutral fiscal policy : an elementary framework
Marjit, Sugata; Yang, Lei - 2017
Theoretical discussion on compensating mechanisms involving the Pareto criterion that address inequality rather than absolute welfare is non-existent in trade literature. In a simple HOS model we consider tax-transfer policies that keep the pre-trade degree of inequality unchanged between...
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Finance, trade, man and machines: a new-Ricardian Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model
Marjit, Sugata; Das, Gouranga Gopal - 2022
This paper attempts to build up a Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model of production and trade where capital is introduced outside the production process as a financial capital or credit as per the classical Ricardian wage fund framework. Stock of credit or financial capital as past savings, finances...
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Heckscher-Ohlin theory when countries have different technologies
Fisher, Eric O'Neill - 2010
to make the proper adjustments for international productivity differences. The central tool is a factor conversion matrix …
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Development-related biases in factor productivities and the HOV model of trade
Maskus, Keith E. (contributor);  … - 2008
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