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Horizontal and vertical intra-industry trade of Nafta and Mercosur: The case of the automobile industry

Montout, Sylvie; Mucchielli, Jean-Louis; Zignago, Soledad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

The NAFTA and MERCOSUR agreements seem to have accelerated the regional integration process respectively within North … and South of America. In the South in particular, MERCOSUR has led to trade liberalisation and deregulation, which has … differentiated goods using a comparison of the unit values. With the increase of intra-industry trade, it appears that MERCOSUR has …

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Comparative Advantage and the Location of Production

Forslid, Rikard; Wooton, Ian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

We return to a familiar topic in international trade, comparative advantage, introducing it into a model of economic geography. We provide a clear counterexample to the familiar result that trade liberalization leads to increased industrial concentration. Instead, lower trade costs may lead to a...

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Country Size and Comparative Advantage: An Empirical Study

Torstensson, Johan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

We formulate a simple model that captures two recent hypotheses: (i) that countries with an abundant absolute endowment of skilled labour will be net exporters in R&D-intensive industries; and (ii) that countries with a large domestic market will be net exporters in scale-intensive industries....

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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

Kerr, William R. - 2016

Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and...

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Trade advantages and specialisation dynamics in acceding countries

Zaghini, Andrea - 2003

The paper analyses the evolution of the trade specialisation pattern in the ten countries which will join the EU in 2004, by studying the dynamics of their comparative advantages over the period 1993-2000. The study finds that, although some countries are still broadly relying on natural...

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Comparative advantage in (non-)routine production

Archanskaia, Liza; Van Biesebroeck, Johannes; Willmann, … - 2020

We illustrate a new source of comparative advantage that is generated by countries' different ability to adjust to technological change. Our model introduces substitution of workers in codifiable (routine) tasks with more efficient machines, a process extensively documented in the labor...

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Comparative Advantage in (Non-)Routine Production

Archanskaia, Liza; Van Biesebroeck, Johannes; Willmann, … - 2020

We illustrate a new source of comparative advantage that is generated by countries' diﬀerent ability to adjust to technological change. Our model introduces substitution of workers in codiﬁable (routine) tasks with more efﬁcient machines, a process extensively documented in the labor...

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Export specialization in services of the Visegrad countries

Stefaniak-Kopoboru, Joanna; Kuczewska, Joanna - 2015

The importance of services and the international trade in services is growing systematically. There are some reasons for that, especially the rapid development of IT technologies. This increase in the international trade in services is a global phenomenon, however there are some other specific...

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Productivity and trade growth in services: How services helped power factory Asia

Shepherd, Ben - 2019

This paper uses a theory-based measure of productivity-based comparative advantage to examine the trade performance of developing Asian economies in manufacturing and services over the 1995-2011 period. We find that the growth in service exports was nearly as rapid as that in manufacturing over...

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Asian Economic Integration: ASEAN+3+1 or ASEAN+1s?

Batra, Amita - 2006

In this paper an attempt is made to evaluate the most efficient approach to regional economic integration in Asia. For the purpose, Asia is defined as inclusive of ASEAN, the plus three economies of China, Japan, Korea and India that is the ASEAN plus four. Given that ASEAN is an existing...

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