Comparative advantage in manufactured goods: a reappraisal

B Balassa - the Review of Economics and Statistics, 1986 - JSTOR
The paper provides a text for the Hechscher-Ohlin theory by simultaneously introducing
trade flows, factor intensities, and factor endowments in the framework of a multi-country and …

Competing at home to win abroad: evidence from Japanese industry

M Sakakibara, ME Porter - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2001 - direct.mit.edu
The study explores the influence of domestic competition on international trade
performance, using data from a broad sample of Japanese industries. Domestic rivalry is …

Testing trade theory

EE Leamer - 1992 - nber.org
This review of the empirical literature in international micro economics observes that data
have had a disappointingly small effect on the intellectual lives of international economists …

The changing comparative advantage of Japan and the United States

B Balassa, M Noland - Journal of the Japanese and International …, 1989 - Elsevier
This paper examines the changing comparative advantage of Japan and the United States
in manufactured goods. The structure of comparative advantage across 167 manufactured …

Comparing international trade data and product and national characteristics data for the analysis of trade models

KE Maskus - 1989 - degruyter.com
Empirical analysis of international trade models is a crude art. In part, this situation is due to
the difficulty of articulating fully general trade theories that are amenable to rigorous testing …

R & D rivalry, industrial policy, and US-Japanese trade

DB Audretsch, H Yamawaki - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1988 - JSTOR
We examine how the strategic aspect of Japanese research and development expenditures
and industrial policies affected US-Japanese bilateral trade during the late 1970s, and …

Measurement of the factor content of foreign trade with traded intermediate goods

RW Staiger - Journal of International Economics, 1986 - Elsevier
In a recent article, Helpman (1984) develops readily testable bilateral restrictions in a model
of international trade which preserves the spirit of Heckscher-Ohlin trade theory. Important in …

Export performance in China's regional economies

Y Wu - Applied Economics, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
China enjoyed unprecedented economic growth in the 1980s and 1990s. Associated with
this growth was the rapid expansion of exports from the Chinese regions. This study aims to …

THE SKILL AND HIGHER EDUCATIONAL CONTENT OF UK NET EXPORTS.

A Webster - Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics, 1993 - search.ebscohost.com
The article analyzes the determinants of net exports in Great Britain in 1984 with emphasis
on the role of human capital. The analysis is based upon the factor content version of the …

Labour skills and human capital in the explanation of trade patterns

AS Courakis - Oxford Economic Papers, 1991 - academic.oup.com
IN the context of the neo-factor proportions model of international trade, efforts to account for
the sectoral pattern of trade of the US and various other economies generally attach …