Intra-Industry Trade and Revealed Comparative Advantage: An Inverted-U Relationship

to an increase in the use of classical and other types of biological control include: the rapid growth in the international trade of agricultural products, stimulated by the

For the measurement of intra-industry trade, we construct a vertical intra- industry trade (VIIT) measure for various margins of unit price ratios, in addition to a

Free trade agreements between China and some trading partners weaken the negative effect of per-capita income differences on IIT.. The results also suggest that cultural

(1998), examining the importance of trade in intermediate goods, used a vertical specialization index as a measure of fragmentation.. Based on their approach, vertical specialization

Exports per firm-product pair 237.951 137.301 Notes: This table shows some descriptive statistics of Portuguese exports to Euro Zone and non-Euro Zone destinations, in 1999.

Our own view can be summed up as follows: part of the trade- the inter-industry trade -is explained by differences in the technology (the Ricardo approach) and

I look at a Malaysian foodscape, specifically the Portuguese Eurasian popu- lation of Malacca (Kristangs) 2 , whose cuisine is situated within a complex and

Por muito objetiva que se queira a avaliação, ela dependerá sempre de intervenientes, dos momentos e das situações concretas” (Pais & Monteiro, 1996:46). Ao longo desta