the heckscher-ohlin model: features, flaws, and fixes i: what's the h-o model like
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The Heckscher-Ohlin Model: Features, Flaws, and Fixes I: What's the H-O Model Like. Alan V. Deardorff University of Michigan. Themes of the 3 Lectures. The HO Model is largely well behaved in 2 dimensions, even when you include trade costs - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The Heckscher-Ohlin Model: Features, Flaws, and Fixes
I: What's the H-O ModelLike
Alan V. Deardorff
University of Michigan
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Themes of the 3 Lectures
The HO Model is largely well behaved in 2 dimensions, even when you include trade costs
• In higher dimensions, it is not so well behaved, especially when you include trade costs
• Various modifications and extensions of the HO model offer some promise of making it behave better
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Outline of Lecture I
• Overview of the H-O Model
• The 2×2 Model– Without trade costs– With trade costs
• The 2×2×2 Model
• Conclusions from the 2×2(×2) Model
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H-O Overview
• The Heckscher-Ohlin (H-O) Model Assumptions– Homogeneous goods and factors– Perfectly competitive market equilibrium throughout
(goods and factors)– Production functions
• Constant returns to scale• Non-joint
– Factors • Perfectly mobile across industries• Perfectly immobile across countries
– Countries differ in factor endowments– Industries differ in factor intensities
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H-O Overview
• The Heckscher-Ohlin (H-O) Model Implications– Countries export goods that use intensively their
abundant factors (H-O Thm)– Trade draws factor prices closer together across
countries, becoming equal in certain circumstances (FPE Thm)
– Trade changes real factor prices (S-S Thm)• Benefiting owners of abundant factors• Hurting owners of scarce factors
– Rybczynski Thm (output effects of factor accumulation)
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The Textbook 2×2 H-O Model
• Goods X, Y
• Factors K, L
• X is K-intensive
• Goods are final goods
• Trade is – Free and frictionless, or– Subject to simple, constant trade costs per
unit (perhaps “iceberg”)
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The Textbook 2×2 H-O Model
• Analysis: Expanded Lerner Diagram shows– Production– Factor allocations– Factor Prices– Trade
for given– Goods prices– Factor endowments
• Thus– Full solution for
small open economy
– Dependence on prices for large economy
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Lerner Diagram
L
K
Y=1/PY0
X=
1/P
X0
1/wK0
1/wL0
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Lerner Diagram
L
K
Y=1/PY0
X=
1/P
X0
E0
Y0
X0
1/wK0
1/wL0
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Lerner Diagram
L
K
Y=1/PY0
X=
1/P
X0
E0
XC
Y0
ECX0
YC
1/wK0
1/wL0
= EW
Export
Import
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The Textbook 2×2 H-O Model
• Behavior– If Endowments inside Diversification Cone
• Both goods produced• Factor prices independent of endowments
– If Endowments outside Diversification Cone• One good produced• Factor prices depend on endowments
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The Textbook 2×2 H-O Model
• Sensitivity– All variables (outputs, trade, factor prices) are
uniquely determined and depend smoothly on• Endowments• Prices
– Adding trade costs vis a vis a single other country
• Creates range of world prices for which country does not trade
• Outside that range, all variables depend smoothly on trade costs
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The Textbook 2×2 H-O Model
• Summary– With free and frictionless trade:
LKJPPEEww
YXIPPEETDST
YXIPPEEDD
YXIPPEESS
YXLKjJ
YXLKIIII
YXLKII
YXLKII
, ),,,,(
,),/,,()(
, ),/,,(
, ),/,,(
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The Textbook 2×2 H-O Model
• Summary– With iceberg trade costs, t:
LKJttPPEEww
YXIttPPEETDST
YXIttPPEEDD
YXIttPPEESS
YXYXLKjJ
YXYXLKIIII
YXYXLKII
YXYXLKII
, ),,,,,,(
,),,,/,,()(
, ),,,/,,(
, ),,,/,,(
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Effects of Increasing Capital Endowment, EK
L
K
Y=1/PY0
X=
1/P
X0
1/wL0
1/wK0
EK
cone
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SX
EK
SX
cone
Effects of Increasing EK
Rybczynski Thm: SX/EK, rises with EK
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Effects of Increasing EK
SY
EKcone
SY
Rybczynski Thm: SY Falls with EK
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Effects of Increasing EK
DX, DY
EK
DX
cone
DY
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Effects of Increasing EK
EK
TX
cone
TY
TX, TY
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Effects of Increasing EK
wK
EKcone
wL
EK
wK
wL
wK0
wL0
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Effects of Increasing Labor Endowment, EL
L
K
Y=1/PY0
X=
1/P
X0
1/wL0
1/wK0
EL
Effects are mirror image of increasing EK
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Effects of Increasing Price of X, PX
L
K
Y=1/PY0
X=
1/P
X0
1/wL0
1/wK0
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Effects of Increasing Price of X, PX
L
K
Y=1/PY0
X=
1/P
X0
1/wL0
1/wK0
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Effects of Increasing Price of X, PX
L
K
Y=1/PY0
X=
1/P
X0
1/wL0
1/wK0
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SX
PX
SX
(cone)
Effects of Increasing Price of X, PX
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SY
PX
SY
(cone)
Effects of Increasing Price of X, PX
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PX
DX
(cone)
Effects of Increasing Price of X, PX
DX, DY
DY
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PX
TY
(cone)
Effects of Increasing Price of X, PX
TX
TX, TY
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PX
wK
(cone)
Effects of Increasing Price of X, PX
wK
Stolper-Samuelson Thm: wK/PX, wK/PY rise with PX
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PX
wL
(cone)
Effects of Increasing Price of X, PX
wLStolper-Samuelson Thm: wL/PX, wL/PY fall with PX
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Effects of Increasing Price of Y, PY
• Effects are mirror image of increasing PX
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Effects of Presence of Trade Costs
• Assume iceberg trade cost t−1>0, equals fraction of each good that disappears in transit to world market (must ship t for 1 to arrive)
• Implication for domestic prices if world prices are PX
w, PYw:
– If country exports X: PX=PXw/t; PY=tPY
w
– If country exports Y: PY=PYw/t; PX=tPX
w
– If country does not trade:
(PXw/PY
w)/t2 ≤ PX/PY ≤ t2(PXw/PY
w)
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Presence of Trade Costs
L
K
Y=1/PYw
X=
1/P
Xw
1/wLw
1/wKw
EC
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Presence of Trade Costs
L
K
Y=1/PYw
X=
1/P
Xw
1/wLw
1/wKw
If country exports X
EC
ECX
…which it will if endowment is above this line
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Presence of Trade Costs
L
K
Y=1/PYw
X=
1/P
Xw
1/wLw
1/wKw
If country exports Y
ECY
…which it will if endowment is below this line
EC
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Presence of Trade Costs
L
K
Y=1/PYw
X=
1/P
Xw
1/wLw
1/wKw
If country exports X
If country exports Y
EC
ECX
ECY
autarky
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Effects of Increasing EK in Presence of Trade Costs
L
K
Y=1/PYw
X=
1/P
Xw
1/wLw
1/wKw
If country exports X
If country exports Y
EC
ECX
ECY
autarky
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autarky
EK
t2PXw/PY
w
Effects of Increasing EK in Presence of Trade Costs
X-export cone
Y-export cone
PXw/PY
wt2
PX/PY
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autarky
EK
Effects of Increasing EK in Presence of Trade Costs
X-export cone
Y-export cone
SX
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autarky
EK
Effects of Increasing EK in Presence of Trade Costs
X-export cone
Y-export cone
SY
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autarky
EK
Effects of Increasing EK in Presence of Trade Costs
X-export cone
Y-export cone
TX, TY
TY
TX
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Effects of Increasing EK in Presence of Trade Costs
wK
EK
wL
EK
wK
wL
autarky
X-export cone
Y-export cone
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autarky
ρw =PXw/PY
w
Effects of Increasing PXw/PY
w in
Presence of Trade Costs
X-export cone
Y-export cone
SX,SY
ρA
(ρA =PXA/PY
A = autarky price)
SX
SY
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autarky
ρw =PXw/PY
w
Effects of Increasing PXw/PY
w in
Presence of Trade Costs
X-export cone
Y-export cone
DX,DY
ρA
DY
DX
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autarky
ρw =PXw/PY
w
Effects of Increasing PXw/PY
w in
Presence of Trade Costs
X-export cone
Y-export cone
TX,TY
ρA
TX
TY
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autarky
ρw =PXw/PY
w
Effects of Increasing PXw/PY
w in
Presence of Trade Costs
X-export cone
Y-export cone
wK/PY
ρA
wK/PY
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autarky
ρw =PXw/PY
w
Effects of Increasing PXw/PY
w in
Presence of Trade Costs
X-export cone
Y-export cone
wL/PY
ρA
wL/PY
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Effects of Increasing Trade Costs
• As trade cost, t, rises from zero, Y-export cone and the X-export cone move further apart, and the “autarky” range of factor endowments and world prices gets larger
• For any given endowment and world prices, a rise in t reduces the volume of trade and moves other variables in the direction of their autarky values.
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Effects of Increasing Trade Costs
• Example:– Consider a country whose factor endowments
have it completely specialized in good X at world prices
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autarky
t
Effects of Increasing Trade Costs: Example
X-export cone
SX,SY
SX
SY
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The World Market: The Textbook 2×2×2 H-O Model
• To model the world economy, add a second country (country “*”)
• Solve for world (relative) price that clears the world market
)/,,()/,,( ***YXLKXYXLKX PPEETPPEET
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The World Market: The Textbook 2×2×2 H-O Model
• Results
with analogous expressions for the other country
LKJPEEEEww
YXIEEEETT
YXIEEEEDD
YXIEEEESS
YLKLKjJ
LKLKII
LKLKII
LKLKII
,),,,,,(
, ),,,,(
, ),,,,(
, ),,,,(
**
**
**
**
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The World Market: The Textbook 2×2×2 H-O Model
• Depictions of world equilibrium– Offer curves (Meade)– Integrated-world-economy diagram (Dixit-Norman)– Sufficient (but not elegant) to use supply and
demand of just one of the goods
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PX/PY
−TX*
(cone)
World Equilibrium
TX
TX, −TX*
(cone)*
(PX/PY)w
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Conclusions from the 2×2(×2) H-O Model
• Equilibria are well defined
• Equilibrium quantities are unique
• Equilibrium prices are unique up to a numeraire
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Conclusions from the 2×2(×2) H-O Model
• Includes three types of equilibria– Autarky (when there are trade costs)– Diversified– Specialized
• Determinants of equilibrium type are mostly clear
• Several relationships between variables depend importantly on type of equilibrium
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Nottingham I 57
Conclusions from the 2×2(×2) H-O Model
• Classic “Theorems” are clear and precise• Countries specialize, but only if endowment
differences are large• Prices and quantities vary continuously with
exogenous changes in– Endowments– Trade costs
• In particular, trade responds sensibly to – Prices and– Trade costs
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What’s Next?
• My point in the next lecture will be that some of these attractive properties are lost in higher dimensions – i.e., especially when there are more than 2 of goods and countries