Sökning: "Factor Endowments"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 13 avhandlingar innehållade orden Factor Endowments.

  1. 1. Deltas Apart - Factor Endowments, Colonial Extraction and Pathways of Agricultural Development in Vietnam

    Författare :Montserrat Lopez Jerez; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Equality of Opportunity; Factor Endowments; Extraction; Agricultural Transformation; Initial Conditions; Rice Economy; Colonialism; Vietnam; Tonkin; Cochinchina;

    Sammanfattning : This study provides an explanation of the different pathways of agricultural change and economic development in north and south Vietnam. It shows that pre-colonial factor endowments conditioned the development of the rice economies of the two deltas in Tonkin and Cochinchina. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Intra-industry trade: measurements, determinants and growth : a study of Swedish foreign trade

    Författare :Pär Hansson; Lars Lundberg; David Greenaway; Örebro universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Intra-industry trade; determinants; comparative costs; factor intensity; product differentiation; elasticity of substitution; economies of scale; quasi-homothetictastes; Sweden; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : The conclusions are that a traditional factor proportions model seems neither theoretically nor empirically to explaing IIT. However, a relaxation of the assumption of homogeneous products in an industry gives rise to several implications for IIT. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Empirical essays on Regional Specialization and Trade in Sweden

    Författare :Hanna Norberg; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; market size; scale economies; technological differences; factor-proportions; Regional production; trade; concentration.; International commerce; Internationell ekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the empirical testing of trade theories, traditionally used to analyze international trade, using regional data on production and trade. This thesis consists of three main essays. In the first essay, we analyze Swedish regional production. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Microeconomic Policy for Development: Essays on Trade and Environment, Poverty and Education

    Författare :Miguel Quiroga; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; absenteeism; aggregation bias; comparative advantage; decomposition analysis; education; environmental endowment; environmental regulation; factor content; geography; hyperbolic discounting; living standards; mandatory attendance; non-homothetic preferences; pollution haven; Porter hypothesis; poverty; present-biased preferences; teaching; time-inconsistent preferences; trade;

    Sammanfattning : Abstracts This thesis contains three papers analyzing different issues. Paper 1: “Do Countries with Lax Environmental Regulations Have a Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries?” We study whether lax environmental regulations induce comparative advantages, causing the least-regulated countries to specialize in polluting industries. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Development constrained – Essays on land as a factor in nineteenth-century industrialization and trade

    Författare :Dimitrios Theodoridis; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; economic development; industrialization; 19th-century; land; ecological footprint; land productivity; colonies; coal; slave trade; trade; ghost acres; empire; sustainability;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation consists of an introductory chapter, four research essays and one essay that describes the collected dataset. The first essay examines how the balance of land embodied in British trade developed during the nineteenth century and provides the first all encompassing accounts on this topic. LÄS MER