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Focusing on Industry Factor Intensity Testing of Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem with Chinese Industry Data

Zhang, Shidi; Xiaowen, Wang; Juan, Yan - 2010

This paper presents a drastically different approach to testing the Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem (HO Theorem) of factor endowment theory by explicitly recognizing the underlying assumptions of the theory and designing a testing strategy that is capable of controlling most of the influencing forces...

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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation

Benz, Sebastian - 2014

This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...

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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation

Benz, Sebastian - 2014

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Energy reform in Switzerland : a quantification of carbon taxation and nuclear energy substitution effects

Egger, Peter; Nigai, Sergey - 2013 - This draft: January, 2013

We develop a general equilibrium model of trade with multiple countries and industries in the spirit of Eaton and Kortum (2002) and Bernard, Eaton, Jensen, and Kortum (2003). We structurally estimate the parameters of the model and calibrate it to data on 33 OECD countries and one country that...

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Export Status and Productivity Performance : Evidence from Matched Italian Firms

Amendolagine, Vito - 2011

findings indicate that export entrants improve their productivity in the first period after entry although this effect vanishes … in the subsequent period. This occurs for both total factor productivity (TFP) and labor productivity growth rates. Our …

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Comparative Advantage in (Non-)Routine Production

Archanskaia, Liza - 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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Comparative Advantage in (Non-)Routine Production

Archanskaia, Liza - 2020

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Export Variety, Productivity, and Country Size in a Multi-good Ricardian Model of Export Diversification

Cieslik, Andrzej - 2018

is an outcome of two forces: a relative productivity change (technological progress) and a relative country size change …

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World-Trade Growth Accounting

Egger, Peter H. - 2016

into their direct (endowment accumulation, productivity growth, changes in trade costs, changing preferences) and indirect … productivity growth, and endogenous changes in expenditures shares on manufacturing goods and services. We quantify the importance … accumulation and trade costs have been the most important drivers of trade in the sample at hand, whereas productivity growth and …

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Trade Patterns Among Industrial Countries : Their Relationship to Technology Differences and Capital Mobility

Saito, Mika - 2015

measures differences in labor productivity (the Ricardian measure), and the other differences in total factor productivity (the …

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