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Local Comparative Advantage: Trade Costs and the Pattern of Trade [PDF]
AbstractWhen there are costs of trade, such as transport or other costs, the pattern of trade may not be well described by the usual measures of comparative advantage, which simply compare a country's costs or autarky prices to those of the world. Instead, a better comparison takes into account the costs of trade. This paper shows first, in an example,
Alan V Deardorff
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Technological convergence and trade patterns [PDF]
Textbook trade theory would suggest that emerging and developing countries specialize in lower-tech industries. In this paper the authors take a dynamic view on development and trade integration and distinguish three types of catching-up processes (the continuous-convergence approach, the climbing-up-the-ladder approach and the jumping-up approach ...
Stehrer, Robert, Wörz, Julia
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Cuba & Soviet Union: Trade Pattern Pitfalls (1970-1988)
This article analyzes the interaction between the Soviet Union and Cuba, the bilateral trade in sugar and nickel ores as well as direct assistance of the USSR to the Castro regime. The scholars investigate the dependence of the Cuban economy on economic
Pavel Terentev +2 more
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Evolving Patterns of International Trade [PDF]
Theoretical models of growth and trade suggest that patterns of international specialization are dynamic and evolve endogenously over time. Initial comparative advantages are either reinforced or gradually unwound with the passage of time. This paper puts forward an empirical framework for modeling international trade dynamics that uses techniques ...
James Proudman, Stephen Redding
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Many international trade theories have been created until nowadays. However, not so much of real life cases were analysed in order to check their validity. The goal of this paper is to analyse Lithuanian metalworking sector in order to define whether any
Gintarė Orlavičienė, Mantas Vilys
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Trade Integration and Export Aspiration: Evidence from India’s Trade in Goods with BRICS Countries
The purpose of this study was to examine the dynamics of trade between India and the BRICS countries as well as to gauge the relative strength of Indian exports to those nations.
Mudaser Ahad Bhat +2 more
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GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT, TRADE, HUMAN CAPITAL, AND BUSINESS CYCLES [PDF]
This paper generalizes the multi-country growth model with capital accumulation, human capital accumulation, economic structure and international trade by Zhang (2014) by making all the time-independent parameters in Zhang’s model as time-dependent ...
Wei-Bin Zhang
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Reconciling the Pattern of Trade with the Pattern of Migration. [PDF]
If only skilled (educated) individuals can become managers, then to employ fully its work force, given a distribution of managerial talent, a country in which skilled labor is scarce must use a less talented manager at the margin than a country in which skilled labor is abundant.
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Trade and Transport Margins is the difference between the sales value and th e purchase value of the commodity as compensation for the trader who is the distributor of the commodity.
Rindang Ndaru Puspita
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Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia possess diverse natural resources and a substantial labor force that permit forming a successful trade integration. However, the recent dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) project between Ethiopia and ...
Ebaidalla M. Ebaidalla
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