Weak links in the chain of comparative advantage
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In this paper, the authors examined the proposition that trade in many commodities can be explained by a chain of comparative advantage and showed that trade accords with the ranking of goods by factor intensity if there are unequal factor prices, free trade, and only final goods.About:
This article is published in Journal of International Economics.The article was published on 1979-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 179 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Trade barrier & Comparative advantage.read more
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The nature and growth of vertical specialization in world trade
TL;DR: This paper found that vertical specialization accounts for 21% of these countries' exports, and grew almost 30% between 1970 and 1990, and also found that growth in vertical specialization accounted for 30% of the growth in these countries’ exports.
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Advanced International Trade : Theory and Evidence Ed. 2
TL;DR: The Advanced International Trade (AIT) as discussed by the authors is a classic graduate textbook in international trade that has been used widely by students and practitioners of economics for a long time to come.
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International Factor Price Differences: Leontief was Right!
TL;DR: In this paper, a modification of the HOV model that allows for factor-augmenting international productivity differences is used to explain much of the factor content of trade and the cross-country variation in factor prices.
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Factor Proportions and the Structure of Commodity Trade
TL;DR: The authors examined how factor proportions determine the structure of commodity trade and showed that countries that rapidly accumulate a factor see their production and export structures systematically shift towards industries that intensively use that factor.
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Why are Services Cheaper in the Poor Countries
TL;DR: In their important work on international comparisons of national incomes and of comparative price structure, Kravis, Heston and Summers (i982, p. 8) have noted that services are much cheaper in the relative price structure of a typical poor country than in that of a rich country as discussed by the authors.
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Domestic production and foreign trade: the american capital position reexamined
TL;DR: The theory of comparative costs was originally developed in the writings of David Ricardo and other so-called classical economists of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as mentioned in this paper, and it still constitutes the basis of the modern theory of international trade.
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The Transfer Problem and Transport Costs, II: Analysis of Effects of Trade Impediments
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Determinants of the Commodity Structure of US. Trade
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