“…These findings are consistent with the majority of the literature, finding negative relationships between factor endowments, distance and HIIT, and positive relationships between economic size and HIIT (Greenaway et al, 1994;Zhang and Li, 2006;Milgram-Baleix and Moro-Egido, 2010). As to agriculture-related factor endowments, these results are in line with some research in finding a negative relationship between agricultural labour and HIIT (Blanes and Mart ın, 2000;Fain stein and Net sunajev, 2011), though many found agricultural capital and HIIT to be positively related (Fain stein and Net sunajev, 2011;Leitão, 2012), contrary to these results. As to the positive relationship between liberalised trade (proxied here by NMS regional trade and EU accession) and HIIT, results are consistent with the majority of the literature (Zhang and Li, 2006;Ambroziak, 2012).…”