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Factor Proportions, Trade, and Growth

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Ronald Findlay () (Columbia University)

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The standard version of the Heckscher-Ohlin model of international trade treats the factors of production--land, labor, and capital--as essentially analytically similar and symmetrical. In these six essays Ronald Findlay explores modifications to the factor proportions model, looking in particular at what happens when human capital and land use are allowed to vary endogenously. Findlay extends the factor proportions theory of international trade to consider capital accumulation, income distribution, and factor mobility in a growing world economy. Among the questions he addresses are such fundamental issues as the conditions under which international trade equalizes the rate of interest; the effects of learning and invention on economic growth and comparative advantage; the role of human capital and skill formation in determining patterns of comparative advantage and the reciprocal effect of international trade on these variables through its impact on wage differentials between skilled and unskilled workers; the incorporation of new territories into a trading system by extensions of the frontier and labor migration as in the establishment of the Atlantic economy of the nineteenth century; and the impact of reductions in transport costs of industrial raw materials on global patterns of manufacturing activity and comparative advantage.

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Edition: 1
ISBN: 0-262-06175-9
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Keywords: factor proportions; trade; growth; transportation costs;

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  4. Maloney, William & Rodriguez-Clare, Andres, 2007. "Innovation shortfalls," Policy Research Working Paper Series 4283, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]
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  5. Brigitte Desroches & Michael Francis, 2006. "Institutional Quality, Trade, and the Changing Distribution of World Income," Working Papers 06-19, Bank of Canada. [Downloadable!]
  6. Douglas A. Irwin, 2000. "Ohlin Versus Stolper-Samuelson?," NBER Working Papers 7641, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  7. Steven Saeger, 1997. "Globalization and deindustrialization: Myth and reality in the OECD," Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), Springer, vol. 133(4), pages 579-608, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  8. Eric W. Bond & Kathleen Trask & Ping Wang, 1996. "Factor Accumulation and Trade: Dynamic Comparative Advantage with Endogenous Physical and Human Capital," Working Papers 0031, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University, revised Aug 2000. [Downloadable!]
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  9. Matthew J. Slaughter, 2001. "Does trade liberalization converge factor prices? Evidence from the antebellum transportation revolution," Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 10(3), pages 339-362, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  12. Michael Pflüger, 2001. "Trade, capital mobility, and the German labour market," Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), Springer, vol. 137(3), pages 473-500, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  13. Ronald Findlay, 2002. "Globalization and the European economy: Medieval origins to the Industrial Revolution," Discussion Papers 0102-28, Columbia University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
  14. Paul Comolli, 2000. "A Theorem On The Gains From International Factor Mobility," International Economic Journal, Korean International Economic Association, vol. 14(1), pages 61-69, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  15. Bin Xu, 2001. "Entrepreneurial Selection, Financial Markets, And Patterns Of International Trade," International Economic Journal, Korean International Economic Association, vol. 15(3), pages 147-167, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  16. Gregg Huff, 2007. "Globalization, Natural Resources and Foreign Investment: A View from the Resource-Rich Tropics," Working Papers 2007_16, Department of Economics, University of Glasgow. [Downloadable!]
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  18. William J. Collins & Kevin H. O'Rourke & Jeffrey Williamson, 1997. "Were Trade and Factor Mobility Substitutes in History?," NBER Working Papers 6059, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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