Services development and comparative advantage in manufacturing

Comparative Advantages and Sustainable Development in Iranian Manufacturing Industries

Determinants of Comparative Advantage in Services

This paper analyzes whether and to what extent determinants of comparative advantage have explanatory power for conventional services trade. It assesses the geographical, Heckscher-Ohlin and institutional determinants of services trade based on the literature for goods trade. Moreover, this paper investigates the importance of a country’s governance of regulation as a source of comparative adva...

Industrial Organization and Comparative Advantage in Mexico's Manufacturing Trade

This paper examines some features of Mexico’s foreign trade in manufactures from the perspective of recent developments in international trade theory, while bringing some characteristics of Mexico’s industrial organization into the analysis. After a brief review of the applied literature on Mexico’s foreign trade, the paper develops a taxonomy of manufacturing industries, according to the natur...

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...

regional differences in comparative advantage and sustainable development indices

abstract almost, the traditional comparative advantage indices especially employment, value added and profitability are considered in all studies in the context of regional comparative advantage. while the study of comparative advantage, regardless of the sustainable development indices is a flawed study. therefore, in this study, in the first stage, iranian provinces are ranked according to em...