This paper examines the patterns and determinants of Australia's revealed comparative advantage in manufactured exports. The results show that Australia's greatest comparative advantage is in technology-intensive and skill-intensive products. Export competitiveness appears to be positively...

The economic successes of China and India are viewed with admiration but also with concern because of the effects that the growth of these Asian economies may have on the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region. The evidence in 'China's and India's Challenge to Latin America' indicates that...

Spectral analysis is applied to the empirical identification of terms of trade cycles, in the secular evolution, 1870-2009, of a group of extreme-landabundant countries: Argentina, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Uruguay. Estimates of the power density spectrum functions produce...

The article analyses the sectoral specialization of Bulgarian exports, making a comparison with the sectoral specialization of the EU as an entity and some of the new member states. It focuses on the question of whether Bulgaria's five years of EU membership contributed to the approximation of...

This paper investigates the nature and pattern of export specialization in Lithuania. The aim of this paper is to estimate the nature and pattern of Lithuanian export specialization under existing conditions. Seeking to define the nature and pattern of export specialization, the basic methods of...

(This paper is in Turkish) Purpose of this study is to identify the Turkish Industries that have comparative advantage in manufacturing export within EU-15 and EU-10 as well as candidate countries such as Bulgaria and Romania. First, export specialization value of Turkey has been calculated with...

This paper compares the international trade pattern of Portugal with the other three EU15 Cohesion countries - Spain, Greece and Ireland - over the last forty years. The paper adopts a fact-finding approach, investigating the degree of openness of these economies and making extensive use of the...

В декабре 2014 г. произошло самое серьезное сокращение российского внешнеторгового оборота с октября 2009 г. При этом темпы падения как экспорта, так и импорта...

В апреле 2013 г. наблюдалось сокращение экспорта при одновременном увеличении импорта, в результате чего значительно сократилось сальдо торгового баланса РФ. Во...