Multicountry, Multifactor Tests of the Factor Abundance Theory

摘要: The Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek model predicts relationships among industry input requirements, country resource supplies, and international trade in commodities. These are tested using data on twelve resources, the of twenty-seven countries 1967. Heckscher-Ohlin propositions that reveals gross relative factor abundance not supported by these data. equations also rejected favor weaker models allow technological differences measurement errors. Copyright 1987 American Economic Association.