|
Leontief's paradox in economics is that the country with the world's highest capital-per worker has a ''lower'' capital/labor ratio in exports than in imports. This econometric find was the result of Wassily W. Leontief's attempt to test the Heckscher–Ohlin theory empirically. In 1953, Leontief found that the United States—the most capital-abundant country in the world—exported labor-intensive commodities and imported capital-intensive commodities, in contradiction with Heckscher–Ohlin theory ("H–O theory"). == Measurements == * In 1971 Robert Baldwin showed that U.S. imports were 27% more capital-intensive than U.S. exports in the 1962 trade data, using a measure similar to Leontief's.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.econ.iastate.edu/classes/econ355/choi/leo.htm )〕 * In 1980 Edward Leamer questioned Leontief's original methodology on real exchange rate grounds, but acknowledged that the U.S. paradox still appears in the data (for years other than 1947). * A 1999 survey of the econometric literature by Elhanan Helpman concluded that the paradox persists, but some studies in non-US trade were instead consistent with the H–O theory. * In 2005 Kwok & Yu used an updated methodology to argue for a lower or zero paradox in U.S. trade statistics, though the paradox is still derived in other developed nations.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Leontief paradox and the role of factor intensity measurement )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leontief paradox」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|