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Arndt, Sven W. - 2008

The domestic repercussions of trade liberalization have come under intense scrutiny in recent years. Trade liberalization and other aspects of globalization have been blamed for income inequality in the United States and unemployment in Europe. A key concern has been trade with low-wage...

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Capital Goods Trade and Economic Development

Mutreja, Piyusha - 2015

Almost 80 percent of capital goods production in the world is concentrated in 10 countries. Poor countries import most of their capital goods. We argue that international trade in capital goods has quantitatively important effects on economic development through two channels: (i) capital...

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Does Specialization Matter for Trade Imbalance at Industry Level?

Song, E. Young - 2016

limited, suggesting that factors other than production specialization are important in determining trade balance at industry …

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Technology Gaps, Trade and Income

Sampson, Thomas - 2019

This paper studies the origins and consequences of international technology gaps. I develop an endogenous growth model where R&D efficiency varies across countries and productivity differences emerge from firm-level technology investments. The theory characterizes how innovation and learning...

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The Skill Content of Inter- and Intra-Industry Trade : Evidence for the Uk

Cabral, Manuel Heredia - 2006

In this paper we investigate the relative importance of net exchanges of skills embodied in intra-industry and inter-industry trade for the UK's trade with some middle income countries. We also separately measure the net exchanges of skills embodied in vertical and horizontal intra-industry...

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Estimation of export specialization : Lithuanian case

Bernatonyte, Dalia - 2014

This paper investigates the nature and pattern of export specialization in Lithuania. The aim of this paper is to … estimate the nature and pattern of Lithuanian export specialization under existing conditions. Seeking to define the nature and … pattern of export specialization, the basic methods of export specialization measurement and the nature and pattern of export …

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Technology gaps, trade and income

Sampson, Thomas - 2019

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The comparative advantage of Dutch cities

Brakman, Steven; Hendrich, Tijl; Marrewijk, Charles van; … - 2020

The trade literature often treats countries as dimensionless points, which is a strong assumption. Agglomeration or lumpiness of production factors within countries can affect the national pattern of trade. In this paper we analyze comparative advantage patterns for 22 cities and 4 regions for...

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International Trade in Manufactured Products : A Ricardo-Heckscher-Ohlin Explanation with Monopolistic Competition

Choudhri, Ehsan U.; Hakura, Dalia S. - 2021

trade models play an important role in explaining relative exports …

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Fragmentation in International Trade : Manufacturing vs Services

Dash, Shailey - 2006

The outsourcing boom being observed in India is actually a part of a much bigger worldwide phenomenon of international fragmentation in production and trade. Outsourcing of manufacturing parts has been going on for quite some time, whereas outsourcing of services is a relatively recent...

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