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New revealed comparative advantage index: Dataset and empirical distribution [PDF]
International Economics, 2014 Abstract This paper presents a new database of revealed comparative advantage (RCA) measures based on the recent index of RCA proposed by Costinot et al. (2012) . This new index conceptually fits the ex ante and country-sector specific nature of the Ricardian comparative advantage better than the traditional Balassa index. The Balassa index, indeed,
Elsa Leromain, Gianluca Orefice
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A Closer Look at Revealed Comparative Advantage: Gross-versus Value Added Trade Flows [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015 The improved availability of value-added trade data allows us to identify more clearly what fragment in the production chain is internationally competitive in a particular country. Rather than focusing on particular sectors or examples, we determine the distributions of revealed comparative advantage (RCA) in terms of both gross exports and value-added
Steven Brakman, Charles van Marrewijk
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Economic Journal of Emerging Markets, 2020 This study estimates the effects of devaluation and appreciation of real effective exchange rate (REER) on revealed comparative advantage (RCA) at Harmonized System 2-digit level of exports in Pakistan.
Muhammad Siddique +2 more
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Gospodarka Narodowa. The Polish Journal of EconomicsUsing a large sample of 160 economies observed over three decades since the mid-1990s, this paper documents patterns of trade specialisation in products embedding automation technologies.
Aleksandra Parteka
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On the revealed comparative advantages of Dutch cities
Review of International Economics, 2022 AbstractDavis and Dingel explain the distributions of skills, occupations, and sectors across cities. Their model predicts that larger cities will be relatively skill‐abundant and specialize in skill‐intensive activities. This relates the model to factor‐driven comparative advantages.
Steven Brakman +3 more
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A Gravity-Based Revealed Comparative Advantage Estimator [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017 I propose a method of moments estimator of revealed comparative advantage based on a flexible specification of trade flows that is consistent with a large class of gravity models of international trade. I show that this estimator has many desirable properties.
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Review of Innovation and Competitiveness, 2016 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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Structure and concentration of the global sheep meat market
Revista Brasileira de ZootecniaThe objective of this study was to examine the structure and competitiveness of the global sheep meat market using econometric indices (Balassa's revealed comparative advantage, relative position market [RPM], relative export advantage [RXA], imported ...
Artemio Ramírez-López +3 more
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Botswana's revealed comparative advantage [PDF]
, 2007 Analysis of Botswana’s competitiveness in world trade has been presented based on indices of revealed comparative advantage (RCA) calculated for the period 1999 and 2004. Results show that Botswana has RCA in diamonds, copper matte, and meat of bovine animals, among other products.
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HeliyonTourism is affected by natural and man-made disasters, such as the recent COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war. The impacts of these on tourism have been analysed at national and regional levels, and at the level of individual destinations ...
Zsuzsanna Bacsi +2 more
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