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Factor endowment -- commodity output relationships in a three-factor, two-good general equilibrium trade model

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We analyze the Rybczynski sign pattern, which expresses the factor endowment - commodity output relationships in a three-factor, two-good general equilibrium trade model. The relationship determines whether a strong Rybczynski result holds. We search for a sufficient condition for each Rybczynski sign pattern to hold in a systematic manner, which no other studies have derived. We assume factor-intensity ranking is constant. We use the EWS (economy-wide substitution)-ratio vector and the Hadamard product in our analysis. We show that the position of the EWS-ratio vector determines the Rybczynski sign pattern. This article provides a basis for further applications.

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Yoshiaki Nakada. 2017-11-28. Factor endowment -- commodity output relationships in a three-factor, two-good general equilibrium trade model. https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.11429

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