International differences in production techniques: Implications for the factor content of trade

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Nishioka, Shuichiro
• 署名单位: West Virginia University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2011.11.010
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 98-104
• 关键词: Heckscher-Ohlin; Specialization across industries; Production technique

摘要

This paper examines how production techniques differ across countries, factors, and industries and considers its implications for previous empirical evidence on the Vanek prediction. I find that production techniques differ substantially across countries and factors, but differ much less across industries within a country. Davis and Weinstein (2001) argue that modeling cross-industry differences (multiple-cone specialization) improves the fit of the Vanek prediction: however, their test statistics are unchanged when one restricts techniques to be identical across industries within a country. Thus, the bulk of world factor content of trade does not arise from specialization. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.