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Do Geographic Scale Economies Explain Disturbances to Heckscher–Ohlin Trade?
Author(s) -
Smith Pamela J.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
review of international economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.513
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1467-9396
pISSN - 0965-7576
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9396.00143
Subject(s) - economies of scale , economics , economic geography , scale (ratio) , scope (computer science) , economies of scope , geographic variation , economies of agglomeration , geography , microeconomics , population , demography , cartography , sociology , computer science , programming language
This paper examines whether “geographic scale economies” explain the trade that remains unexplained by the Heckscher–Ohlin model. The paper develops a theoretical specification that integrates geographic scale economies into the Heckscher–Ohlin model, and develops a statistical method for detecting geographic scale economies in the distributional features of a disturbance term. The units of analysis are US states. The findings reveal that empirical support for the Heckscher–Ohlin theory is improved by accounting for geographic scale economies within states; geographic scale economies do not generate differences in Rybczynski effects across states; and the scope of geographic scale economies is contained within states.