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The normalized revealed comparative advantage index

The Annals of Regional Science, 2008
In this paper, we propose the normalized revealed comparative advantage (NRCA) index as an alternative measure of comparative advantage. The NRCA index is demonstrated capable of revealing the extent of comparative advantage that a country has in a commodity more precisely and consistently than other alternative RCA indices in the literature.
Run Yu, Junning Cai, PingSun Leung
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On the appropriate interpretation of the revealed comparative advantage index: Implications of a methodology based on industry sector analysis

Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 1985
Zur richtigen Interpretation des RCA-Index: Folgerungen aus der Analyse von Industriesektoren. - In Studien, die sich mit Handel und struktureller Anpassung befassen, haben okonomen das Konzept des “revealed comparative advantage” (RCA) benutzt. Obwohl es in empirischen Untersuchungen hAufig verwendet wurde, sind wichtige Eigenschaften dieses Index ...
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Investigating India’s pollution-intensive ‘dirty’ trade specialisation: analysis with ‘revealed symmetric comparative advantage’ index

Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021
This study intends to explore India's comparative advantage in the pollution-intensive product export with temporal and spatial analysis by applying an alternative measure of revealed comparative advantage index. The emission-intensive manufacturing commodities are mainly chosen as per the list published by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) of
Suvajit Banerjee   +3 more
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Constructing Aggregated Revealed Comparative Advantage Index of a Country

Journal of Asian Economic Integration, 2023
The measures of revealed comparative advantage (RCA) with multiplicative specification and dependency on world trade of export items are incomparable across time and places. Intra-country comparisons by Balassa RCA and its variants are problematic, calling for a method of aggregating RCA of all sectors of a country reflecting the overall export ...
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Revealed Comparative Advantage Indexes for Regions of the United States

Global Economy Journal, 2005
This study identifies the pattern of comparative advantage for U.S. regions from actual trade performance as indicated by the industry composition of exports. Revealed comparative advantage patterns are also determined using production data. Dynamic changes in comparative advantage patterns are identified using a methodology developed by Kreinin and ...
Don P. Clark   +2 more
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Understanding the non-Gaussian distribution of revealed comparative advantage index and its alternatives

International Economics, 2019
Abstract The Balassa Index (BI) is a widely used index for evaluating a country's trade (dis) advantage or specialization. Unsatisfied with its unstable distribution and poor ordinal ranking property, which arise from its unstable mean, asymmetric distributional shape, skewness and variable upper bound, many alternatives of BI, including Logarithm of
Bin Liu, Jianbo Gao
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Visualizing bivariate local spatial autocorrelation between commodity revealed comparative advantage index of China and USA from a new space perspective

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2020
The development of trade research plays an important role in enhancing the understanding of the trade relationship structure, evolution and relevant driving factors. While there is little research on analyzing and visualizing bilateral trade patterns and the evolution of numerous kinds of commodities.
Sijing Ye   +3 more
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Consistency Test of Revealed Comparative Advantage Index: Evidence from India’s Agricultural Export

Foreign Trade Review, 2018
This article analyses the competitiveness of India’s agricultural products in world markets. Four indices of revealed comparative advantage (RCA) were used at the four-digit level of harmonized system (HS) of classification for the period of 1996–2015. Under live animal products, 7 out of 26 products showed RCA.
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An Investigation of Turkey’s Competitiveness on Different Products Groups in Automotive Sector via Revealed Comparative Advantage Index

2020
Competitive power in international trade is one of the most desirable targets of countries in today’s globalized world. Thus, the importance of international competitiveness that has been a fundamental issue since the rise of the international economic theory is increasing for various products.
Semanur Soyyiğit, Kiymet Yavuzaslan
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