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Why trade when you can transfer the technology : revisiting smith and ricardo
Acharyya, Rajat; Marjit, Sugata - 2021
This paper explores the possibility of international technology transfer in lieu of trade in a model with absolute and comparative advantage. Countries having absolute advantage in producing a good may offer that technology to a possible trading partner against a fee and both the countries might...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012584221
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Comparative Advantage and Gender Gap in STEM
Goulas, Sofoklis; Griselda, Silvia; Megalokonomou, Rigissa - 2020
Why are females compared to males both more likely to have strong STEM-related performance and less likely to study STEM later on? We exploit random assignment of students to classrooms in Greece to identify the impact of comparative advantage in STEM relative to non-STEM subjects on STEM...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269991
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Why Trade When You Can Transfer the Technology: Revisiting Smith and Ricardo
Acharyya, Rajat; Marjit, Sugata - 2021
This paper explores the possibility of international technology transfer in lieu of trade in a model with absolute and comparative advantage. Countries having absolute advantage in producing a good may offer that technology to a possible trading partner against a fee and both the countries might...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599251
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Comparative advantage and gender gap in STEM
Goulas, Sofoklis; Griselda, Silvia; Megalokonomou, Rigissa - 2020
Why are females compared to males both more likely to have strong STEM-related performance and less likely to study STEM later on? We exploit random assignment of students to classrooms in Greece to identify the impact of comparative advantage in STEM relative to non-STEM subjects on STEM...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228602
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Trade, Growth, and Technology Equalization
Seater, John J. - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2005
Trade is shown to increase economic growth purely through comparative advantage without recourse to scale effects, technology transfer, research and development, or even international investment. The resulting growth rates are those that would result from technology transfer, even though no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650450
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The Basics of International Trade: A Classroom Experiment
Isgut, Alberto; Ravishanker, Ganesan; Rosenblat, Tanya - Economics Department, Wesleyan University - 2005
We introduce a simple web-based classroom experiment in which students learn the Ricardian model of international trade. Students are assigned to countries and then make individual production, trade and consumption decisions. The analysis of experimental data introduces students to the concepts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518216
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Absolute and Comparative Advantage, Reconsidered: The Pattern of International Trade with Optimal Saving
Brecher, Richard A.; Chen, Zhiqi; Choudhri, Ehsan U. - Carleton University, Department of Economics - 2000
This paper obtains new results about absolute and comparative advantage, by introducing international technological differences into the three-sector Findlay-Komiya and two-sector Oniki-Uzawa-Stiglitz models ofopen-economy growth with optimal saving. For example, ifa country has the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627053
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Specialization across goods and export quality
Alcalá, Francisco - Facultad de Economía y Empresa, Universidad de Murcia - 2014
This paper explores the link between international specialization across goods and within goods along the quality dimension. The analysis is performed in a multi-country model with an integer number of efficiency heterogeneous firms producing each good and under reasonably general assumptions on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011199957
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Specialization, outsourcing and wages
Munch, Jakob Roland; Rose Skaksen, Jan - 2005
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the … literature, we focus on domestic outsourcing as well as foreign outsourcing. By using a simple theoretical model, we argue that …, if outsourcing is associated with specialization gains arising from an increase in the division of labor, domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267474
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The bazaar effect, unbundling of comparative advantage, and migration
Kohler, Wilhelm K. - 2007
Germany exhibits a strong reduction in domestic manufacturing production depth (bazaar effect). I argue that this reflects an unbundling of comparative advantage. Using a model where Ricardian plus Heckscher-Ohlin-type comparative advantage relates to fragments of production, I compare a trading...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274459