Brasili, Andrea; Epifani, Paolo; Helg, Rodolfo - EconWPA - 2000
In this paper we analyse the dynamics of trade patterns in the six largest industrialised countries and in eight fast … growing Asian economies. For each of these countries we study the shape of the sectoral distribution of an index of trade … far as the degree of persistence is concerned: the former have in fact a highly persistent trade pattern, whereas the …