Benedictis, Luca De; Tamberi, Massimo - In: Open Economies Review 15 (2004) 4, pp. 323-346
It is customary in the empirical trade literature to analyze specialization patterns of countries using Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) measures. This paper explores the informational content of the most commonly used RCA index: the Balassa (1965) Index of RCA.
