Specialization Patterns and the Factor Bias of Technology

Marco Maffezzoli () and Cuñat, Alejandro
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Alejandro Cunat

No 6290, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: Development accounting exercises based on an aggregate production function find technology is biased in favour of a country's abundant production factors. We provide an explanation to this finding based on the Heckscher-Ohlin model. Countries trade and specialize in the industries that use intensively the production factors they are abundantly endowed with. For given endowment ratios, this implies smaller international differences in factor price ratios than under autarky. Thus, when measuring the factor bias of technology with the same aggregate production function for all countries, they appear to have an abundant-factor bias in their technologies.

Keywords: Development accounting; Heckscher-ohlin; International trade; Simulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 F4 O4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-05
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