Analysing Comparative Advantage and Competitiveness: An Application to Australia's Textile and Clothing Industries

Havrila, Inka; Gunawardana, Pemasiri

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“…Consequently, the RTA index is considered to be a more appropriate measure of competitiveness in this study. The Vollrath indices have been widely used in the economic literature in several empirical studies that explore the international competitiveness of specific sectors or products (Traill and Da Silva 1996;Bavorová 2003;Fertö and Hubbard 2003;Havrila and Gunawardana 2003;Ivankovič et al 2005;Hambalková 2006;Asciuto et al 2008;Crescimanno et al 2011;Crescimanno and Galati 2012), but they have never been used to evaluate the effects of the financial and economic crisis on the competitive position of a nation.…”

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The role of the economic crisis on the competitiveness of the agri-food sector in the main Mediterranean countries

Crescimanno¹,

Galati²,

Bal³

2014

Agric. Econ. - Czech

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Th e world economic crisis that, since 2008 has also struck the real economy, cannot be attributed only to the United States bubble which in 2007 involved the mortgage credit market, but it is the result of a series of factors among which the imbalance of the fi nancial market, of the public accounts of the main economies and the real sector. Also agriculture, which has always been considered an anti-cyclic sector, has seen a strong slowdown with a plunge in the trade fl ows. Th is paper analyses the changes which happened to the competitive position in the world market of some Mediterranean countries and of France, Italy, Spain and Turkey in particular trying, moreover, to understand the vulnerability of the countries belonging to the EU concerning their integration into an economic and monetary union. Th e results show how much the crisis has involved all the countries bringing, on the whole, a reduction of the competitive potential in the international market which has been less strong in Turkey, the country characterized by a low per capita income and a low public debt. It can be seen, in particular, how the sectors with a strongest commercial specialization have showed a better resistance to the pressure of the recessive trend.

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Section: Methodological Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

The role of the economic crisis on the competitiveness of the agri-food sector in the main Mediterranean countries

Crescimanno¹,

Galati²,

Bal³

2014

Agric. Econ. - Czech

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“…The index of the Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) has been used to describe whether or not a country has a comparative advantage in a particular industry sector or product through trade, without analyzing the main sources of this comparative advantage [4][5][6][7]. Defined as the ratio of the share of exports of a product or an industry sector of a country in the global market, to the share of total exports of all products or industry sectors of the country in the same market, RCA index imprinted as follows RCAij = (xij / Xj) / (xiw / Xw) where, RCAij: revealed comparative advantage index for product or sector of country xij: the exports of the product or sector of country Xj: total exports of country Xiw: the exports of the product or sector i worldwide Xw: total exports worldwide Whether or not a country has comparative advantage within a product category depends on the value of the index.…”

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The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Exports of Greek Sea Βass and Sea Βream

Polymeros¹

2017

JAMB

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“…The concept is to distinguish the competitive products of a country in the international trade [10,11,17,18] . In this paper three terms have been used [12] : the net trade index ("Normalized Balassa") NT j for the study of consequences from the external asparagus trade on national trade balance [19,20] , a specialization of Michaelly index [21,22] for bilateral [23,24] analysis…”

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Competitiveness and Prospects of Greek Asparagus: The European Context

Kolokontes¹,

Σέμος²

2009

American J. of Applied Sciences

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Problem statement:The revisions and the anticipated abolition of CAP will change the agricultural structure in member states of EU. Although the asparagus, without government interventions, from the decade of 90' has been transformed at one of more promising, in exports terms, cultivation for Greece, however under the existing circumstances it has a doubtful future. Approach: This research studied the diachronic evolution of competitiveness of white fresh Greek asparagus into the European context. A scheme of trade indices, based on post-trade and post-production data, had been estimated in respect of absence from the literature of a single generally accepted measure of competitiveness. Results: The results demonstrated that the Greek asparagus presents both a highly dependency of the German market and a penetration weakness into other markets, except from the Dutch one. The lack of Greek large retail chains with considerable geographic dispersion in West Europe contributes to trading problem. The feeble domestic consumption in Greece in combination with the enlargement of German production and the implied diminishing of its imports, cause restlessness for the future of cultivation and the producers' income in Greece. Conclusion: A long term trading pattern for bonds creation in foreign supply channels and the growth of domestic consumption in Greece are indispensable to support and expand the future prospects of Greek asparagus.

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Analysing Comparative Advantage and Competitiveness: An Application to Australia's Textile and Clothing Industries

Cited by 63 publications

References 20 publications

The role of the economic crisis on the competitiveness of the agri-food sector in the main Mediterranean countries

The role of the economic crisis on the competitiveness of the agri-food sector in the main Mediterranean countries

The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Exports of Greek Sea Βass and Sea Βream

Competitiveness and Prospects of Greek Asparagus: The European Context

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