The measurement of intra-industry trade between unequal partners

Nilsson, Lars

doi:10.1007/bf02707503

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“…All the indices shown above measure the share of intra-industry trade instead of its level which is a much better index as Nilsson (1997) suggests. According to the author, IIT should be divided by the number of product groups in the total trade, resulting in an …”

Section: Measuring the Vertical And Horizontal Intraindustry Tradementioning

confidence: 99%

Country and industry specific determinants of intra-industry agri-food trade in the Baltic Countries

Jámbor¹,

Balogh²,

Kucsera³

2016

AGR ECON-CZECH

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Th e article analyses the country and industry specifi c determinants of the horizontal and vertical intra-industry agri-food trade between the Baltic Countries and the European Union in 1999-2013. Results obtained by the GMM panel model estimations suggest that distance is negatively related to IIT, implying that geographical distance is an obstacle for intra-industry agri-food trade. Moreover, factor endowments are ambiguously related to IIT as land is found to be negatively, while labour and machinery to be positively related to both sides of the IIT. Results also show that product diff erentiation fosters two way trade of the quality-diff erentiated goods as a positive relationship exists between the agricultural employment and IIT. As to productivity, all model runs show a negative relationship for HIIT but positive for VIIT, implying that low-quality product exports dominate the agri-food trade of the Baltic Countries. Furthermore, FDI was also found to have a negative relationship with IIT, suggesting that foreign capital does not foster IIT.

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Section: Measuring the Vertical And Horizontal Intraindustry Tradementioning

confidence: 99%

Country and industry specific determinants of intra-industry agri-food trade in the Baltic Countries

Jámbor¹,

Balogh²,

Kucsera³

2016

AGR ECON-CZECH

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Section: Measuring Vertical and Horizontal Intra-industry Tradementioning

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“…According to Nilsson (1997), IIT should be divided by the number of product groups in total trade, resulting in an average IIT by product group. The Nilsson index is formally expressed as follows (Nilsson, 1997): (7) where the numerator equals that of the GHM index, while n refers to the number of product groups in total trade. Nilsson (1997) argues that his measure provides a better indication of the extent and volume of IIT than GL-type indices and is more appropriate in cross-country IIT analyses.…”

Section: Measuring Vertical and Horizontal Intra-industry Tradementioning

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Country- and industry-specific determinants of intra-industry trade in agri-food products in the Visegrad countries

Jámbor¹

2015

Stud. Agr. Econ.

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The article analyses country-and industry-specifi c determinants of horizontal and vertical intra-industry trade (IIT) in agri-food products between the Visegrad countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovak Republic) and the European Union in the period 1999-2013. The results show that IIT is mainly of a vertical nature in the Visegrad countries, though the majority of their exports consist of low quality/value-added agri-food products to European markets. The results obtained by generalised method of moments (GMM) panel model estimations suggest that factor endowments and distance are mainly negatively related to IIT, while product differentiation was found not to foster two-way trade of quality-differentiated goods. All model runs show a negative relationship between productivity as well as foreign direct investment and IIT.

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“…The GHM and FF approaches both measure trade shares and, as such, are open to the criticism that they reflect the degree rather than the level of IIT (Rajan, 1996;Nilsson, 1997 and. Consequently, our third approach employs a measure that attempts to indicate more accurately the level of the different types of trade.…”

Section: Measuring Vertical and Horizontal Intra-industry Tradementioning

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Vertically Differentiated Trade and Differences in Factor Endowment: The Case of Agri-Food Products between Hungary and the EU

Fertő

2005

J Agricultural Economics

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The paper investigates the relationship between factor endowment and vertical intraindustry trade (IIT)in agri‐food products between Hungary and the EU. Intra‐industry trade is separated into its horizontal and vertical components on the basis of differences in unit values. Three different approaches to measuring IIT are employed and these are then tested using panel regression models. Results show vertical type trade is predominant in total IIT for agri‐food products. In order to achieve more general results, we consider different types of productive factors: land, human and physical capital. Using Flam and Helpman type vertically differentiated trade models, we find a positive relationship between factor endowment and vertical IIT. More importantly, using a measure of IIT that reflects the level of trade produces better regression results than those based on the degree or share of IIT.

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The measurement of intra-industry trade between unequal partners

Cited by 31 publications

References 14 publications

Country and industry specific determinants of intra-industry agri-food trade in the Baltic Countries

Country and industry specific determinants of intra-industry agri-food trade in the Baltic Countries

Country- and industry-specific determinants of intra-industry trade in agri-food products in the Visegrad countries

Vertically Differentiated Trade and Differences in Factor Endowment: The Case of Agri-Food Products between Hungary and the EU

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