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Input Tier as consumption falls, and this serves unambiguously to reduce the real wage.[3]

If domestic (and world) prices of trade middle products remain constant to the small country, all non-labour inputs in the Output Tier can be aggregated, a la Hicks, into a composite middle product input, which serves to convert the production structure in the Output Tier from an (n+1)- factor, n-commodity specific-factors model into a two-factors, many- commodity Heckscher-Ohlin model.[3]

In the middle-products model Input Tier is the existence of a world market in which middle products can be exchanged for each other that permits such a conversion.[3]

question: in а vertical production structure with many stages, which goods-in-process or middle products does а country import and which does it export? Two recent papers have tackled this issue independently and with different models. Sanyal (1980) assumes that in each of two countries а commodity is produced in а continuum of stages, with different Ricardian labor-only input structures. Depending upon technological differences and relative country size, а cut-off point will be determined, with one country producing the commodity from raw material stage to some intermediate point, and then exporting this good-in-process to the other country where labor is applied to finish the production process.

By contrast, Dixit and Grossman (1982) use а specific-factors model, with one of the commodities (manufacturing) produced in а continuum of stages using capital and labor (the other sector using land and labor)

[2]. These stages are arranged such that, as goods-in-process develop towards the final stage, more labor-intensive techniques are required.

Thus with two countries, the labor-abundant country will tend to specialize in later stages of the productive spectrum[3].[3]

They analyze how endowment changes alter the cut-off point, as well as investigating issues related to content protection.[3]

I.II Natural resources

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We turn to consider more generally, now, the interaction between trade in goods and trade in factors.[3]

Addendum 1

Siberia is Among Leaders in Raw Materials Markets[5]

Siberia's rating looks more impressive in some groups of goods than its 7-th general placing. Split the whole flow of commercial projects into

9 groups of goods, and for 6 of them Siberia joins the leading three:

Timber and Paper

I Siberia 32.6

II Moscow 19.1

III St.-Petersburg 14.2

Fuel

I Siberia 20.3

II Urals 13.2

III Moscow 12.3

Chemical Products

I Moscow 17.2

II Siberia 15.7

III St.-Petersburg 11.9

Construction Materials