Revealed Comparative Advantages in the Services Trade of the United States, the European Union and Japan

Langhammer, Rolf J.

doi:10.1163/221190004x00092

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“…To ascertain the importance of any service in exports of a given country, the Balassa's [1965] revealed comparative advantage (RCA) index is usually used [Deardoff, 1985;Langhammer, 2004;Markusen et al, 2005;Ambroziak, 2018]. It measures a country's exports of a commodity in relation to its total exports and the corresponding export performance of a set of exporters to the same market [Stefaniak-Kopoboru and Kuczewska, 2016].…”

Section: Methodology and Datamentioning

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Intra-EU vs. extra-EU trade in ICT services

Stefaniak

Ambroziak

2021

International Journal of Management and Economics

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The position of information and communication technology (ICT) services is growing in the European Union (EU) trade, however to different extend in different EU countries. The article aims to identify trade positions of the EU Member States in intra-EU trade and extra-EU trade in ICT services and to assess changes that have taken place in the years 2013–2018. The importance of the EU Member States in trade in ICT services is assessed, followed by the analysis of their trade positions in terms of selected indices. We discovered that countries of the highest importance for the intra-EU and extra-EU trade in ICT services are not holding the best positions in trade in this area, except for Ireland. Additionally, leaders in ICT services trade do better in extra-EU trade rankings than in the EU Internal Market, since the distance does not matter to business operations consequent to the digitalization of economic activities.

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Section: Methodology and Datamentioning

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Intra-EU vs. extra-EU trade in ICT services

Stefaniak

Ambroziak

2021

International Journal of Management and Economics

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“…These are: information resources, country's telecommunication infrastructure, orientation and volume of funds spent on investment and development, level and skill of labour, and the reliability projected by a given service supplier. The importance of other factors than physical endowment is also recognised by Daniels (1993) and Langhammer (2004). Daniels, in the case of trade in services, sees the importance of finance capital, political and cultural factors, characteristics of human capital, the pattern and level of existing development in a country.…”

Section: Revealed Comparative Advantage -Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Daniels, in the case of trade in services, sees the importance of finance capital, political and cultural factors, characteristics of human capital, the pattern and level of existing development in a country. However, in the opinion of Langhammer (2004), comparative advantage for service trade cannot be compared to comparative advantage for goods trade because it follows other determinants, such as existences of different modes of supply, domestic policy factors and specifics of factor movements.…”

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confidence: 99%

Export specialization in services of the Visegrad countries

Stefaniak

Kuczewska

2016

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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 issues, other than economic or technological, which might influence the trade in services in particular countries. As for the countries of the Central and Eastern Europe such a factor could be the accession to the European Union (EU). The objective of the paper is to analyse the export specialization of the Visegrad countries in the international trade in services and how it changed over seven years after the EU accession. The service sector comprises of a variety of highly heterogeneous economic activities and the diversity of services is also reflected in the international trade of particular countries. Generally, the trade theories deal with trade of goods, but there are some attempts already to apply these theories for services. To find out the export specialization based on the comparative advantage in particular services, the main categories of services are analysed based on the adjusted RCA index assumptions. The analysis prepared in the paper is based on the balance of payment statistics provided by the WTO. The article is concluded by discussing the questions about the export specialization of particular countries and how it changed after the accession to the EU.

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“…Whereas the RCA index was applied to trade in services, a different definitional equation of the RCA from that used in this paper was adopted, and the definitional equation used in that paper is not an ordinary one. Langhammer (2004), however, pointed out a suggestive fact: service provisions are currently closely related to a commercial presence. Those types of international service provisions would be important in addition to cross-border exports.…”

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Revealed Specialization: Evidence on U.S. International Services

Hisanaga

2008

The International Trade Journal

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Revealed Comparative Advantages in the Services Trade of the United States, the European Union and Japan

Cited by 20 publications

References 5 publications

Intra-EU vs. extra-EU trade in ICT services

Intra-EU vs. extra-EU trade in ICT services

Export specialization in services of the Visegrad countries

Revealed Specialization: Evidence on U.S. International Services

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