Thus Jacob Viner (1937, p. 442) balanced the claims of E. R. A. Seligman for Robert Torrens against those of J. H. Hollander for David Ricardo. Lionel Robbins (1958) found rather more in Torrens, and J. Chipman (1965) also made much of his contribution. W. O. Thweatt (1976) made a small sensation when he attributed Ricardo’s formulation to James Mill, regarded only as a popularizer of Ricardo’s...

A stylized model of trade between identical countries is developed, where the only departure from standard neoclassical theory is that worker skills are imperfectly observable. This creates an informational externality since firms take aggregate investments into consideration when making inference about individual workers. The interaction between the informational externality and price effects ...

I explore the interactions between comparative, competitive and absolute advantage in a two-country model of oligopoly in general equilibrium. Comparative advantage always determines the direction of trade, but both competitive and absolute advantage affect resource allocation, trade patterns and trade volumes. Competitive advantage in the sense of more home firms drives foreign firms out of ma...

This paper discusses the implications of basic trade theory for our understanding of the economic performance of national institutional networks. A nation’s institutional configuration importantly shapes the incentives of its economic actors and thereby affects its productive capacities in various economic sectors. I.e., firms’ production functions, and thereby the shapes of national production...

in the present study, competitiveness of iranian pistachio exports and competitor countries in  the world market are studied. pistachio export advantage using indices of revealed comparative advantage (rca) approach and vector error correction model(vecm) based on  agricultural and non-petroleum export commodity basket were investigated separately. the results showed that iran has a comparative...

چکیده زعفران به عنوان طلای سرخ ایران با ارزش ترین محصول کشاورزی و گران ترین ادویه جهان در تاریخ صادرات کشورمان همواره از جایگاه خاصی برخوردار بوده و پس از پسته مهمژ ترین محصول صادراتی غیرنفتی کشور می باشد. لذا در این مقاله سعی شده است با استفاده از روش ماتریس تحلیل سیاست 3 (pam)، ضمن بررسی شاخص های حمایتی، مزیت نسبی ایران در تولید زعفران و نیز توان رقابت آن در بازارهای جهانی در سال 1387 مورد بر...

according to international trade theories, countries attempt to produce and export commodities with their abundant resources. iran has great energy resources and availability of inexpensive energy input has increased energy consumption per capita in manufacturing sector as well as in consuming sector. relying on low energy price, manufacturers employ energy-intensive methods for producing and e...

this study investigated the export status of stone fruits in iran during 1997 to 2010.export trends and revealed comparative advantage of indices, namely, revealedcomparative advantage (rca), revealed symmetric comparative advantage (rsca),and relative export advantage (rxa) as well as trade mapping (tm) were investigatedfor cherries, plums, peaches, and apricots. target markets for these produ...

abstract with consideration to the resource limitation, it seems necessary to design cropping pattern scientifically in order to increase productivity of production factors and to decrease production average costs. this studyaimed at identifying the optimum cropping pattern based on comparative advantage in three counties of ilam province including darreh shahr, ivan, and shirvan chardaval. to ...