Institutions and Trade: Competitors or Complements in Economic Development?
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Institutions, Trade and Development
I In 1961 Burenstam Linder (1961) rocked the boat of the prevailing Heckscher-Ohlin trade theory by noting that much of international trade, particularly in manufactures, was among similar countries, not between countries with disparate factor endowments (as between rich and poor countries). His explanation was in terms of demand, more trade taking place among relatively rich countries with sim...
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عنوان ژورنال: Economic Record
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0013-0249,1475-4932
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2009.00541.x