The paper shows that the relationship between GDP per capita and levels of specialization can be predicted differently …

The paper shows that the relationship between GDP per capita and levels of specialization can be predicted differently …

The pattern of specialization is key to understanding how trade affects the production structure of an economy. To … modern Ricardian trade theory, to account for the observed patterns. The results show that specialization through comparative … measure specialization, I compute concentration indexes for the value of exports and imports and decompose the overall …

We exploit Japan’s 19th century move from autarky to free trade to provide the first test of the general validity of … a single refutable prediction on the economy’s factor content of trade. Our test combines factor price data from Japan …’s late autarky period with Japan's factor content of trade calculated with the technologies of the country of origin of …

We exploit Japan's 19th century move from autarky to free trade to provide the first test of the general validity of … a single refutable prediction on the economy's factor content of trade. Our test combines factor price data from Japan …'s late autarky period with Japan's factor content of trade calculated with the technologies of the country of origin of …

We propose a normative assessment of the value of international trade that is rooted in production theory and embeds … Ricardo's 1817 formulation of the gains from trade into a multi-factor general equilibrium framework. Without imposing strong … the magnitude and the sources of the gains from trade. A high quality data set on product and task-specific factor …

We exploit Japan's 19th century move from autarky to free trade to provide the first test of the general validity of … a single refutable prediction on the economy's factor content of trade. Our test combines factor price data from Japan …'s late autarky period with Japan's factor content of trade calculated with the technologies of the country of origin of …

We propose a normative assessment of the value of international trade that is rooted in production theory and embeds … Ricardo's 1817 formulation of the gains from trade into a multi-factor general equilibrium framework. Without imposing strong … the magnitude and the sources of the gains from trade. A high quality data set on product and task-specific factor …

specialization in trade between Lithuania and the EU are determined. For measurement the pattern of export specialization in …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 …

This paper contributes to trade diversification literature by comparing changes in relative (i.e. assessed in … highly disaggregated trade statistics (4963 product lines) for 163 countries (1988-2010) and find that, despite differences …) of both import and export structures accompanies economic growth, while re-specialisation is plausible only in case of …