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Jeffrey R. Bernstein, David E. Weinstein
NBER Working Paper No. 6815*
Issued in November 1998
NBER Program(s): ITI
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Examining the relationship between factor endowments and production patterns using international and Japanese regional data, we provide the first empirical confirmation of Ethier's correlation approach to the Rybczynski theorem. Moreover, we find evidence of substantial production indeterminacy. Prediction errors are six to thirty times larger for goods traded relatively freely. A compelling explanation of this phenomenon is the existence of more goods than factors in the presence of trade costs. This result implies that regressions of trade or output on endowments have weak theoretical foundations. Furthermore, since errors are largest in data sets where trade costs are small, we explain why the common methodology of imputing trade barriers from regression residuals often leads to backwards results.
*Published: Bernstein, Jeffrey R. and David E. Weinstein. "Do Endowments Predict The Location Of Production," Journal of International Economics, 2002, v56(1,Jan), 55-76.
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