Using International and Japanese Regional Data to Determine When the Factor Abundance Theory of Trade Works

American Economic Review

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 421-446

  Davis, Donald R ^a   Weinstein, David E ^b   Bradford, Scott C ^a   Shimpo, Kazushige ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL TRADE; METHODOLOGY; THEORY; TRADE THEORY;

EID: 0031422341     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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