We examine some controversial country-specific factors influencing vertical and horizontal intra-industry trade including foreign direct investment and income distributions. As concerns, the effect of differences in countries’ levels of economic development (richness), both theories and...

During the last decades, international trade flows of the industrialised countries became more and more intra-industry. At the same time, employment perspectives particularly of the low skilled by tendency deteriorated in these countries. This phenomenon is often traced back to the fact that...

Die Außenhandelsverflechtungen Sachsens haben in den letzten Jahren stetig zugenommen. Werden Güter aus der gleichen Produktgruppe sowohl im- als auch exportiert, wird von intraindustriellem Handel gesprochen. Stammen die im- bzw. exportierten Güter hingegen aus unterschiedlichen...

This paper contributes to the existing empirical investigation of Japan-Korea international trade by providing new evidence of intra-industry trade between Korea and Japanese sub-regions. Taking advantage of a Japanese international trade dataset disaggregated by sub-regions, we calculate the...