Türkiye Demir-Çelik Sektörünün Ürün Haritalaması: Widodo Yöntemiyle Bir Analiz

Abstract

This study examines the competitiveness of Turkey's iron and steel industry from 2000 to 2019 based on the nine three-digit sub-sectors and reveals the product mapping of this industry. In the study, the revealed comparative advantage index (RCA), the revealed symmetric comparative advantage index (RSCA), and the trade balance index (TBI) were used, and the product mapping method developed by Tri Widodo was employed. As its most significant contribution to the literature, this study analyzes the product mapping of Turkey's iron and steel industry. It has been observed that three of the nine sub-sectors (

International Competitiveness Analysis of Turkish Pasta Industry in Framework of Some Indexes and Product Mapping: A Research on the years 2001-2020

“…Limited studies are using the RSCA, TBI, and Product mapping methods. They were written by Ignjatijevic (2014), Topçu & Sarıgül (2015) Bağcı ( 2016), Ketenci & Bayramoğlu (2018), Terin & Yavuz (2018), Bakkalcı (2018), Maqbool et al (2020), Başkol & Bektaş (2021). (2014), in this study, determined the international competitiveness of Austria, Bulgaria, Czech, Hungary, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Moldova, Germany, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, and Ukraine within the scope of the processed food sector between 2005 and 2011.…”

“…It has been stated that the Turkish textile industry has lost its relative importance in the economy. In the study conducted by Başkol & Bektaş (2021), the competitiveness of the Turkish iron and steel industry was analyzed from 2000 to 2019, and RCA, RSCA, TBI, and product mapping method was used in the analysis. In the study, the competitiveness of nine sub-sectors was analyzed and it was determined that three of them were net exporters with comparative advantage, two of them were net importers with comparative disadvantage, and two of them were net importers despite having a comparative advantage in recent years.…”

Analyzing global competitiveness of Turkish air conditioning industry

“…Generally, studies in the literature on measuring international competitiveness use Balassa's index and Vollrath indexes. Turkish literature using the product mapping method is extremely limited [26][27][28][29][30][31][32]. Topçu and Sarıgül [26] analyzed the competitiveness of the five sectors with the highest share in Türkiye's exports (textile, clothing, iron and steel, electrical machinery, motor vehicles) for the period 2000-2014.…”

“…Yeldan et al, [31] evaluated the competitiveness of the Turkish iron and steel sector for the periods 2001-2017 and used the product mapping to determine the sector's place in foreign trade. Başkol and Bektaş [32] analyzed the competitiveness of the Turkish iron-steel industry in the periods covering the years 2000-2019 and examined specifically in nine with three-digit sub-sectors.…”

“…In this study, Balassa's Revealed Comparative Advantage Index (RCA), Vollrath Indices (RXA, RMP, RTA, RC), Revealed Symmetric Comparative Advantage Index (RSCA), Trade Balance Index (TBI) and Product Mapping method were used. Turkish literature using the product mapping method is extremely limited [26][27][28][29][30][31][32]. Studies in the international literature on product mapping method are [33][34][35][36][37][38][39].…”