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Globalization, Redistribution, and the Composition of Public Education Expenditures

Baskaran, Thushyanthan - 2010

We analyze whether globalization affects the composition of public expenditures for education by integrating arguments from the Heckscher-Ohlin and the tax competition literature into a common theoretical framework. The model suggests that with increasing global integration, developing countries...

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International Specialization and the Return to Capital

Batista, Catia - 2010

How does factor accumulation affect the pattern of international specialization and returns to capital? We provide a new integrated treatment to this question using a panel of 44 developing and developed countries over the period 1976-2000. We confirm the Heckscher-Ohlin prediction that, with...

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Reciprocity Across Modes of Supply in the World Trade Organization : A Negotiating Formula

Mattoo, Aaditya - 2016

If negotiations on trade in services at the World Trade Organization are to advance liberalization beyond levels … trade in services at the World Trade Organization (WTO) have so far produced little liberalization beyond levels countries …

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Value added content of trade : a comprehensive approach

Foster-McGregor, Neil; Stehrer, Robert - In: Economics letters 120 (2013) 2, pp. 354-357

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Maskus, Keith E.; Nishioka, Shuichiro - 2021

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...

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Globalization, Returns to Accumulationa and the World Distribution of Output

Beaudry, Paul - 2004

This paper examines the extent to which the process of globalization can explain the observed widening in the cross--country distribution of output--per--worker. In particular examine whether the opening up of trade in a Hecksher--Ohlin type model of trade can explain the observed changes. On...

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Increasing Returns and All That : A View From Trade

Antweiler, Werner - 2000

Do scale economies contribute to our understanding of international trade? Do international trade flows encode information about the extent of scale economies? To answer these questions we examine the large class of general equilibrium theories that imply Helpman-Krugman variants of the Vanek...

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Empirical international trade

Bernhofen, Daniel M. - 2010

During the last decade, international trade has witnessed a dramatic transition from a field dominated by theory to one … dominated by empirics linked to theory. In this volume, Professor Bernhofen has selected an impressive range of critical papers …Kei-Mu Yi (2003), 'Can Vertical Specialization Explain the Growth of World Trade?', Journal of Political Economy, 111 …

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The role of comparative advantage, endowments and technology in structural transformation

Dosi, Giovanni; Tranchero, Matteo - 2019

In this chapter we discuss the role of natural resources and endowment structures on structural change. Departing from theories of trade that stress specialization according to one's comparative advantages as the key route to development, we articulate an alternative point of view on the role of...

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Factor Endowments, Democracy and Trade Policy Divergence

Galiani, Sebastian; Schofield, Norman; Torrens, Gustavo - 2011

We develop a stochastic model of electoral competition in order to study the economic and political determinants of trade policy. We model a small open economy with two tradable goods, each of which is produced using a sector specific factor (e.g., land and capital) and another factor that is...

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