according to the literature, economic liberalization is an important factor affecting the intra industry trade (iit). present paper is trying to examine the positive effect of economic liberalization on iran’s iit as well as to review the effectiveness of important components of economic liberalization including privatization, trade liberalization, exchange rate liberalization and financial lib...

This paper investigates the structure East Asian trade flows over the high-growth period of 1970-1996. Data for Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines are analysed, using measures of static intra-industry trade (Grubel-Lloyd index) and of dynamic (marginal) intra-industry trade. Inferences drawn from those results are based on the “smooth adjustment hypothesis”, according to which intra...

This article examines the location of manufacturing industries in the European Union. It draws on intra-industry trade measures for 1961–90 and on sectoral employment data by countries and regions. The analysis of employment data suggests that EU industry has become increasingly localized in the 1980s. Increasing-returns industries are strongly concentrated at the economic core of the EU and di...

This paper analyzes trade in East Asia and inter-industry linkages over the borders, i.e. spatial linkages, with use of the Asian international input-output tables. As a result of analysis, it was shown that intra-regional trade within the eight East Asian countries, the U.S and Japan has been driven by the intermediate goods trade. At the same time, intermediate goods, especially those of the ...

A two-count ry, twōrm model has been developed to study equilibrium lobbying posit ions in intra-industry trade under cost uncertainty. A ̄rm chooses either a protect ionist posit ion or a free-t rader posit ion. The model predicts that taking the free-t rader (protect ionist) lobbying posit ion is an e± cient (ine± cient) ̄rm's dominant strategy. In addit ion, for any lobbying posit ion taken ...

The article analyses patterns and country-specific determinants of Visegrad Countries’ (VC) agri-food trade with the European Union. Literature focusing on the country-specific determinants of vertical and horizontal intra-industry trade is rather limited and those analysing agricultural (or agri-food) trade are extremely rare. Therefore, the paper seeks to contribute to the literature by cover...