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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the role of trade in productivity growth in a sample of 30 sectors in 25 EU countries in the period of rapid East-West integration. Shift-share analysis is used to show that changes in value added per hour worked in these countries appear to be mainly due...
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By analyzing vertical intra-industry trade (VIIT) within Portugal's automobile parts and components industry, this study adds new empirical evidence for the international fragmentation of the production process. For trade partner countries, we choose the EU countries, the BRICs, and the US...
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We provide a systematic decomposition of world trade using harmonized bilateral flows at the most available detail (some 5,000 product categories), into three trade types: inter-industry, intra-industry in horizontally and in vertically differentiated products. The analysis is diachronic and...
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Using only transition period data, this paper analyses revealed comparative advantages (RCAs) and specialisations to identify the 3-digit SITC (Standard International Trade Classification) sectors in which the EU's trade liberalisation with Eastern European applicants may represent opportunities...
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This paper analyzes dynamic changes of China's intra-industry trade with its major trading partners, Japan and the US, from 1980 to 2004. It also investigates to what extent foreign direct investment promoted intra-industry trade. The empirical results show that, while shares of China's...
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. Another progress in IIT studies was the research on the determinants of HIIT/VIIT. Various countryand industry …-specific determinants have been studied and differences in factor endowments and market size, physical and/or institutional barrier against … trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) are the key elements determining IIT in country level. Though these determinants …
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and Helpman (2004) framework that includes investments in component search to investigate the determinants of foreign …
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-country differences, the paper points out the important distinction between the determinants of inter-industry trade and intra …
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The paper analyzes the factors behind the reorientation of transition countries' exports to their non-traditional partners outside their former block. First, the amount of reorientation is calculated using a gravity model. Then, reasons for the cross-country differences in the rate of closing...
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of intra-industry trading caused the rise of theoretical models explaining the determinants of these trade flows. It also …
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