This paper studies the effects of trade liberalization on capital flows in a dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin model and makes four contributions. First, we identify an interest rate over-determination problem such model, solve it with endogenous discount factor. Second, show that developing country generally leads to greater current account surplus, which is exact opposite common but partial equilibrium...

Were the new economic geography forces for industry agglomeration and dispersion at work in the movement of industry in pre-1931 Britain where transport costs were falling? This paper examines the issue empirically using a general model that nests the Heckscher-Ohlin factor endowment with new economic geography models. The evidence suggests that while the location of pre-1931 British industry w...

In this paper, we empirically investigate how the ideology of the government in power a®ects trade policy. The prediction of a partisan, ideology-based model (within a two-sector, two-factor Heckscher-Ohlin framework) is that left-wing governments will adopt more protectionist trade policies in capital rich countries, but adopt more pro-trade policies in labor rich economies than right-wing one...

This paper estimates for 28 product groups a characteristic parameter that reflects the topological structure of its trading network. Using these estimates, it then describes how the structure of international trade has evolved during during the 19802000 period. Thereafter, it demonstrates the importance of networks in international trade by explicitly accounting for their scaling properties wh...

During the last decades, some Asian countries have experienced a substantial change of their production structure leading to a change of their trade patterns. Whereas formerly high-tech goods were imported, they now constitute an important fraction of the countries' exports. Possible reasons for such a situation to arise are investigated in a model combining Ricardian and Heckscher-Ohlin effect...

This paper argues that international trade should affect local organization of production in a systematic way. By using the standard Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model we show that the export sector is more likely to demonstrate fragmentation, entrepreneurship and outsourcing compared to the importcompeting sector in a typical labor abundant country. Liberal trade regime will promote entrepreneurs...

This paper uses three years of individual-level data to analyze the determinants of individual preferences over trade and immigration policies in the United States. Different economic models make contrasting predictions about what forces should shape these preferences. We have four main empirical results. First, we find that factor type dominates industry of employment in explaining support for...

The Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek Theorem has been used to predict the factor contents of trade under the ideal assumption that factor prices are equalized. Available empirical studies have shown that the measured contents of factor trade significantly differ from the predicted factor contents of trade. This paper employs a more general definition of factor abundance in the presence of factor price dis...

The conception of aand P-receptors for catechol amines was originally based on experiments with heart and smooth muscle (Ahlquist, 1948). The present investigation deals with such receptors in glandular tissue. The starting-point was the observation that guanethidine causes a flow of saliva from the submaxillary gland which is completely abolished by dihydroergotamine in cats but only reduced b...