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The pattern of trade in individual products: A test of simple theories

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Zusammenfassung

Der Handel mit einzelnen Produkten: ein Test einfacher Theorien. — Der Zweck dieses Aufsatzes ist es, die LeistungsfÄhigkeit von drei einfachen Theorien zur Prognose des Handels mit einzelnen Produkten zu testen. Wenn wir diese Theorien nacheinander prüfen, so stellen wir fest, da\ die Skalenertrags-Hypothese nichts erbringt, aber sowohl die Faktorproportionen-Hypothese als auch die Neotechnologie-Hypothese signifikante und konsistente ErklÄrungen für die Wahrscheinlichkeit des Exports einzelner Produkte liefern.

Die Arbeit zeigt auch, da\ die beiden erfolgreichen Hypothesen sinnvoll zu einer kombinierten Hypothese verbunden werden können, in der die Exportwahrscheinlichkeit sowohl von neo-technologischen Aspekten als auch von Faktorproportionen abhÄngt. In diesem kombinierten ErklÄrungsansatz beeinflu\t die KapitalintensitÄt — sei sie aggregiert oder in physisches und Humankapital disaggregiert — den Handel nur, wenn es sich um standardisierte Produkte mit einfacher Technologie handelt.

Résumé

La structure de commerce extérieur avec des biens individuels: un test des théories simples. — Le but de cet article est de tester la performance de trois simples théories qui prédisent le commerce extérieur avec des biens individuels. En testant ces théories, pour la mÊme période, nous trouvons que les approches des proportions de facteur aussi bien que les approches néo-technologiques donnent une explication significative et consistante de la probabilité d’exporter les biens individuels pendant que l’approche des économies d’échelle ne la donne pas.

Cet étude aussi trouve que les deux explications couronnées de succès peuvent Être productivement combinées dans une approche composite, dans laquelle la probabilité d’exportation dépend des considérations néo-technologique et des proportions de facteur. Dans cette approche explicative l’intensité de capitaux, ou bien agrégée ou bien desagrégée dans l’intensité de capitaux humaine et physique, influence le commerce extérieur seulement avec des produits standardisés et de technologie basse.

Resumen

El perrón de commercio en productos individuales: un test de teorías simples. — El propósito de este estudio es investigar el desempeño de tres teorías simples para predecir el comercio de productos individuales. Probando estas teorias, una tras otra, encontramos que mientras la explicación de las economías de escala no es satisfactoria, las explicaciones de proporciones de factores y neotecnológica, respectivamente, proveen una explicación significativa y consistente de la probabilidad de exportar productos individuales.

En este estudio también se encontró que las dos explicaciones satisfactorias pueden combinarse exitosamente en una explicación compuesta, en la que la probabilidad de exportación depende de consideraciones neo-tecnológicas como también de consideraciones de proporciones de factores. En esta explicación compuesta, la intensidad de capital, agregada o desagregada en intensidad de capital física o humana, influencia el comercio solo de productos estandarizados de baja tecnología.

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Choudhri, E.U. The pattern of trade in individual products: A test of simple theories. Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 115, 81–98 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02696343

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