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Contrasting Revealed Comparative Advantages when Trade is (also) in Intermediate Products
Escaith, Hubert - 2020
The paper reviews and compare a selection of existing and new alternative indicators of Revealed Comparative Advantages, with a special emphasis on trade in intermediate products. The research adopts a statistical approach for both its theoretical and its analytical facets. The formal concepts...
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The Low Countries’ export trade in textiles with the Mediterranean basin, 1200-1600: a cost-benefit analysis of comparative advantages in overland and maritime trade routes
Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
, and Italy, to the establishment of an effective and ‘permanent’ direct sea-route between Italy and north-west Europe from … routes associated with them, and with a forced shift to the maritime trading routes between Italy and north-west Europe … textiles from north-west Europe were exported to Italy and the Mediterranean basin, because, inter alia, the overland distance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005036845
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Innovation – source to obtain the competitive advantage in the global economy
Sipos, Gabriela Lucia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
A strong motivation to replace the comparative advantage theory with the competitive advantage theory is given by the significant change of the present economic conditions comparing with the old conditions that inspired the competitive advantage issues. The dynamic character of the market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835900
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The woollen cloth industry in Italy: The rise, expansion, and decline of the Italian cloth industries, 1100 - 1730
Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
in Italy: principally Tuscany and Lombardy. In so far as warfare and rising transaction costs limited the importation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836279
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Sustained Comparative Advantage and Semi-Endogenous Growth
Petsas, Iordanis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper constructs a two-country (Home and Foreign) general equilibrium model of Schumpeterian growth without scale effects. The scale effects property is removed by introducing a distinct specification in the knowledge production function which generates semi-endogenous growth. In this model...
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Trade regimes and Gatt: resource intensive vs. knowledge intensive growth, Chapter 10
Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996
Trading blocks can help or hinder the liberalization of world trade. A determining factor is whether trade within the block is organized around traditional comparative advantages, or around economies of scale. Regional free trade agreements such as NAFTA can be a substitutes for global free...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836870
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Sectoral and geographical positioning of the EU in the international division of labour
Cheptea, Angela; Gaulier, Guillaume; Sondjo, Dieudonné; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Today’s international trade in goods is driven mainly by the growth of exports and imports of the South. Emerging countries naturally gain global market shares in manufactured goods from old industrialised countries, including Europe. This trend has became even more pronounced during the last...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258001
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"Trade, Reform, And Structural Transformation in South Korea"
Betts, Caroline; Giri, Rahul; Verma, Rubina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
A two country, three sector hybrid model of structural change with distortionary government policies is used to quantify the impact of international trade and trade reform for industrialization. The model features Arming- ton motivated trade in agriculture and industry, and a novel...
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Impact of environmental regulations on trade in the main EU countries: conflict or synergy?
de santis, roberta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In an increasingly integrated world with declining trade barriers, environmental regulations can have a decisive role in shaping countries’ comparative advantages. The conventional wisdom about environmental protection is that it comes at an additional cost on firms imposed by the government,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260076
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Industrialisation and de-industrialisation: England divides
Jones, Eric - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
National averages conceal powerful interactions underlying English economic development in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The simplest operational divisions are north, south and London. Initially industry and business culture predominated in the south but this culture was seduced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855238