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Intraindustry Trade and Relative Factor Endowments
Author(s) -
Cieślik Andrzej
Publication year - 2005
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/j.1467-9396.2005.00544.x
Subject(s) - economics , empirical evidence , capital (architecture) , trade theory , econometrics , empirical research , international trade , trade barrier , mathematics , statistics , philosophy , archaeology , epistemology , history
This article investigates the relationship between relative factor endowments and intraindustry trade shares in bilateral trade flows. While Helpman and Krugman's theoretical framework predicts a negative relationship, empirical studies often report contrary results. We, however, argue that previous empirical studies fail to provide an exact link between the theory and the data. New empirical evidence based on the estimating equation derived directly from the theoretical framework demonstrates that the theory finds support in the data once the sums of capital–labor ratios are controlled for.