-2010 transition periods for China's primary trade partners. We disentangle total intra-industry trade into vertical intra … estimations suggest that China's HIIT is more likely to emerge with countries that are similar than with those that are different …. Conversely, China's VIIT happens more with different rather than with similar countries. And in the intra-industry trade, the …

In this paper, we provide an overview of the development of vertical intraindustry trade (VIIT) between Japan and …. Our sample covers the period from 1988 to 2004 for bilateral trade between Japan and 31 European countries. Our …-Cox approach. We find that intra-industry trade between European countries and Japan increases with their corresponding Japanese …