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| Bender, Siegfried; Li, Kui-Wai. |
| Changes in comparative advantage should reflect changes in factor endowment, but increasingly, changes in trade policies also affect a regions trade performance. Based on the arguments in Balassas stages of comparative advantage thesis, this paper looks at the performance of manufacture exports in a number of Asian and Latin American economies over the period 1981-1997 and examines the revealed comparative advantage indices between economies in East Asia, Southeast Asia and Latin America. Although the RCA measurement may not distinguish between the factor endowment effects from the trade policy effect, we argue that RCA measures provide indication on the movement in a regions comparative advantage. The evidence strongly suggests that despite the strong... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: International trade; Revealed comparative advantage; Manufacture exports; International Relations/Trade; F14. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28478 |
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| Ferto, Imre; Hubbard, Lionel J.. |
| We analyse the evolving pattern of Hungary's agri-food trade using recently developed empirical procedures based on the classic Balassa index and its symmetric transformation. The extent of trade specialisation exhibits a declining trend; Hungary lost comparative advantage for a number of product groups over the 1990s. The indices of specialisation have also tended to converge. For particular product groups, the picture is mixed: indices are reasonably stable for product groups with comparative disadvantage, but those with weak to strong comparative advantage show significant variation. The results reinforce the finding of a general decrease in specialisation, but do not support the idea of self-reinforcing mechanisms, emphasised strongly in much of the... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: International trade; Revealed comparative advantage; Hungary; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25851 |
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| Martins, Alexandra Pereira; Silva, Fernanda Aparecida; Gomes, Marilia Fernandes Maciel; Rosado, Patricia Lopes. |
| The globalization, an international process evidenced in the 80's decade, has requested the government and economic agents an orientation to reach international levels of competitiveness by the various sectors of the economy. Besides this fact, Minas Gerais state is the second state exporter in Brazil. It emphasizes the importance of the analysis of the structure and behavior of the export sector, as well as their effects on different economic sectors in the period 1996 to 2008. The objective of this paper is to identify and analyze groups of products that Minas Gerais state has revealed comparative advantages, degree of concentration of products and destinations of exports, and intra-industry or inter-industry trade. The theoretical model is based on... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Revealed comparative advantage; Trade intra-industry; Exports; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/95071 |
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| Regmi, Anita; Gehlhar, Mark J.; Wainio, John; Vollrath, Thomas L.; Johnston, Paul V.; Kathuria, Nitin. |
| Market access remains a major impediment for expansion of global trade in high-value foods, particularly processed foods. Countries use tariffs and other measures that effectively stimulate imports of relatively unprocessed agricultural commodities at the expense of processed products. Tariff escalation, in which tariffs rise with the level of processing, discourages trade in high-value foods, and trade remedy measures, such as antidumping duties, are concentrated among high-value products. Globalization has provided countries with easier access to capital and technology needed to produce processed food, further affecting trade patterns and markets for high-value foods. A uniform cut in tariffs increases trade in high-value foods more than trade in raw... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food trade; Processed food; High-value foods; Tariff; Tariff escalation; Trade remedy measures; Sanitary and phytosanitary measures; Safeguard measures; Revealed comparative advantage; Trade complementarities; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/33999 |
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