Normality in the Distribution of Revealed Comparative Advantage Index for International Trade and Economic Complexity [PDF]
The Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) index is an important metric for evaluating competitiveness of a country in exporting certain commodity. While it is desirable to have a normally distributed RCA index, the opposite is often found in empirical ...
Bin Liu, Jianbo Gao
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This research is concerned with the comparative analysis of competitive trade within the cluster market economies of the European Union. The aim of this paper is to carry out trade analysis within the competing countries in the European market from 2009 ...
Adigwe Edward O.
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The Austrian District of Burgenland is located in the eastern part of the country. In the last decade, the region has benefited from different subsidy programs from the European Union.
Doris Granabetter
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China's trade competitiveness in the area of agricultural products after the implementation of the World Trade Organization commitments [PDF]
The paper provides evidence on the implementation of China's trade commitments into its institutional and legal environment, which influenced its agricultural trade. The contribution to the trade balance index and the revealed comparative advantage index
Lenka FOJTÍKOVÁ
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Export competitiveness and comparative advantage of Republic of Serbia [PDF]
The paper deals with the analysis of Serbian export competitiveness, i.e. the identification of comparative advantages and the degree of specialization in international trade from 2011 to 2020. The Standard International Trade Classification (SITC Rev. 4)
Živković Jelena
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A New Class of Revealed Comparative Advantage Indexes [PDF]
AbstractThis paper draws upon a critical analysis of the three RCA indexes in Vollrath (1991) to propose a new class of RCA indexes. The baseline RCA index in this new class rests on the overall structure of trade, is symmetric, avoids size bias and is compatible with the Kunimoto-Vollrath principle. Possible modifications of the baseline RCA index are
Jenny P. Danna-Buitrago, Rémi Stellian
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Composite Revealed Comparative Advantage Index: A Non-parametric Approach [PDF]
The composition and share of export items from a country change over time. Individual exporting companies take firm-level actions to keep up their market share.
Satyendra Nath CHAKRABARTTY +1 more
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ASSESSING INDONESIA-CHILE BILATERAL TRADE OPPORTUNITIES: A REVEALED COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE APPROACH
This paper analyzes the Indonesia-Chile bilateral trade opportunities based on their respective export competitiveness uses the Revealed Comparative Advantage Index for 2012.
Sulthon Sjahril Sabaruddin +1 more
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A Note on the Balassa Index of Revealed Comparative Advantage [PDF]
It is customary in the empirical trade literature to analyze specialization patterns of countries using Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) measures. This paper explores the pros and cons of the most commonly used RCA index: the Balassa (1965) Index of RCA.
Luca DE BENEDICTIS, Massimo TAMBERI
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Assessment of non-wood forest products trade competitiveness between Ethiopia and Asia/19 countries
The study makes a comparative analysis of Ethiopia and Asia/19 countries in the foreign trade of non-timber forest products between the periods of 2008-2018. The study focused on two commodity groups with a harmonized system of (HS) codes; HS409: Natural
Ahmed Zeleke
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