EXPLORING INDONESIA-PARAGUAY TRADE POTENTIALS: A REVEALED COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE APPROACH

Revealed Comparative Advantage (rca) and Trade Complementarity between India-asean Trade: a Study with Reference to Fisheries Sector

Trade, Development, and Poverty-Induced Comparative Advantage

This paper deals with the relation between trade and development when poverty affects individual decision making. We develop a twosector model that links production and schooling decisions under poverty with standard neo-classical trade analyses. The decision to either work or acquire skills depends on households having reached subsistence levels of income, implying that the income level of a c...

A World Trade Model with Bilateral Trade Based on Comparative Advantage

This paper describes an extension of Duchin’s World Trade Model to include the explicit representation of transportation costs, permitting the endogenous determination of bilateral trade flows and region-specific prices. The original model is a linear program that, based on comparative advantage and the minimization of factor use, determines regional production and trade flows as well as world ...

Support for trade restrictions, attitudes, and understanding of comparative advantage

We asked respondents about their attitudes toward restriction of imports, their understanding of the principle of comparative advantage and their attitudes toward globalization and business. Respondents who favored import restrictions scored lower on the test of understanding of comparative advantage, and they had less favorable attitudes toward globalization and toward business. Import restric...

Comparative Advantage in U.s. Interstate Forest Products Trade

A BSTRACT According to the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek theorem, the net exports of a region are determined by relative abundance of the immobile factors of production. Empirical tests of this theory, usually at a high level of aggregation, have frequently not supported it. We find, instead, that data on interstate trade in wood products within the United States are in strong agreement with the theore...