 Relative Prices and ‘Factor Price’ Equalisation in a Heterogeneous Capital Goods ModelL. Mainwaring Chapter 6 in Fundamental Issues in Trade Theory, 1979, pp 77-89 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract In recent years there has been some debate on the consequences for some well-known international trade theorems of the inclusion of heterogeneous capital goods in the process of production.1 In one contribution Steedman and Metcalfe [12] have shown by means of a simple numerical example that the equalisation by trade of so-called ‘factor prices’, the wage and rate of profits, may not occur in these circumstances. Such a result requires a non-monotonic relationship between relative commodity prices and ‘factor prices’. The purpose of this paper is to examine this relationship in the context of a multi-commodity, multi-technique circulating capital model of the type familiarised by Sraffa [11]. We shall attempt to show that circumstances exist in which ‘factor price’ equalisation (f.p.e. for short) may not be realised, and that such circumstances are not dependent on there being complete international specialisation, nor on reversals of ‘factor’ intensity. Keywords: Relative Price; Capital Good; Intermediate Good; Factor Price; Relative Prex (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-04378-1_6 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-04378-1_6 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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