Comparative advantage and export specialisation mobility

Kowalski, Przemysław; Bottini, Novella

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“…29 Differences can subsequently be related to explanatory variables to explain Balassa index patterns (see also Deardorff, 2011 andKowalski andBottini, 2011).…”

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The Comparative Advantage of Dutch Cities

Brakman

Hendrich

Marrewijk³

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“…29 Differences can subsequently be related to explanatory variables to explain Balassa index patterns (see also Deardorff, 2011 andKowalski andBottini, 2011).…”

Section: Comparing Distributionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Comparative Advantage of Dutch Cities

Brakman

Hendrich

Marrewijk³

et al. 2020

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“…Xikfalse∑kXik is a major significant component of RCAik and can be influenced by factors, such as trade barriers, export-oriented strategies, concentration of high-technology manufactured items for export (Kowalski & Bottini, 2011) and logistic efficiencies of the k th commodity at the i th country (Devlin & Yee, 2005).…”

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Constructing Aggregated Revealed Comparative Advantage Index of a Country

Chakrabartty

2023

Journal of Asian Economic Integration

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The measures of revealed comparative advantage (RCA) with multiplicative specification and dependency on world trade of export items are incomparable across time and places. Intra-country comparisons by Balassa RCA and its variants are problematic, calling for a method of aggregating RCA of all sectors of a country reflecting the overall export potential of the country. Overall RCA of a country ([Formula: see text]) is necessary to know the country’s RCA of all the export items as a function of trade flows relative to a point of reference, that is, a base period. The article proposes geometric aggregation of the ratio of RCA at the current period over the base period for each sector to get [Formula: see text] by a continuous, monotonically increasing function of time, satisfying time-reversal test, formation of chain indices and generates time-series data. Progress path of [Formula: see text] and similar path of jth sector may help policymakers to decide on appropriate action for the economy and individual sectors. Distribution of [Formula: see text] will approach lognormal. Knowledge of distributions of [Formula: see text] for different countries helps to have a better inter-country comparison. The similarity of two RCA curves may be evaluated by similarity measures. An empirical illustration of the proposed method is given. JEL Codes: C43, F14

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Revealed Comparative Advantage: What Is It Good For?

French¹

2014

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This paper utilizes a many-country, many-product Ricardian trade model to evaluate the usefulness of measures of revealed comparative advantage (RCA) in academic and policy analyses. I find that, while commonly used indexes are generally not consistent with theoretical notions of comparative advantage, certain indexes can be usefully employed for certain tasks. I explore several common uses of RCA indexes and show that different indexes are appropriate when attempting to (a) evaluate the differential effect of changes in trade barriers across producers of different products, (b) identify countries who are relatively close competitors in a given market, or (c) recover patterns of relative productivity.

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Comparative advantage and export specialisation mobility

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The Comparative Advantage of Dutch Cities

The Comparative Advantage of Dutch Cities

Constructing Aggregated Revealed Comparative Advantage Index of a Country

Revealed Comparative Advantage: What Is It Good For?

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