Overall Specialization Empirics: Techniques and Applications

Benedictis, Luca De; Tamberi, Massimo

doi:10.1023/b:open.0000048522.97418.99

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“…If B > 1, then a country's agri-food comparative export advantage on the global market is revealed. In spite of some criticisms of the B index as export specialisation index, such as the asymmetric value problem, the problem with logarithmic transformation (De Benedictis and Tamberi, 2004) and the importance of simultaneous consideration of the import side, the main advantage against alternative trade indices is its theoretical foundation that changes in the B index are consistent with changes in countries' relative factor-endowments (e.g., Hinloopen and van Marrewijk, 2008;Bojnec and Fertő, 2008). The B index can provide useful evidence on the country's agri-food export competitiveness on global markets.…”

Section: Revealed Comparative Advantagementioning

confidence: 99%

The duration of global agri-food export competitiveness

Bojnec

Fertő

2017

BFJ

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Purpose -The article examines the pattern, duration and country-level determinants of global agri-food export competitiveness of 23 major global agri-food trading countries.Design/methodology/approach -The large panel dataset is compiled to assess the pattern, duration and country-level determinants of global agri-food export competitiveness, using a revealed comparative advantage index. Originality/value -The framework developed is conceptually innovative for modelling the likelihood of failure in the duration of comparative advantage with implications. Export competitiveness is a crucial factor for long-term global farm business survival, as it fosters opportunities in business prosperity on global markets.

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Section: Revealed Comparative Advantagementioning

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The duration of global agri-food export competitiveness

Bojnec

Fertő

2017

BFJ

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“…In this case the horizontal lines depict the demarcation value of 1, above which a sector is characterized by Revealed Comparative Advantages (RCA) (Balassa 1965;De Benedictis and Tamberi 2004).…”

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Overall trade specialization and economic development: countries diversify

2009

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This paper provides evidence for an aspect of trade often disregarded in international trade research: countries' sectoral export diversification. The results of our semiparametric empirical analysis show that, on average, countries do not specialize; on the contrary, they diversify. Our results are robust for different statistical indices used to measure trade specialization, for the level of sectoral aggregation, and for the level of smoothing in the nonparametric term associated with per capita income. Using a generalized additive model (GAM) with countryspecific fixed effects it can be shown that, controlling for countries' heterogeneity, sectoral export diversification increases with income.

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“…a fruit and vegetable product group in which the country is relatively more specialized in the terms of exports. Despite some critiques of the RCA index as an export specialization index, such as the asymmetric value problem and the problem with the logarithmic transformation (De Benedictis and Tamberi 2004), the importance of the simultaneous consideration of the import side (Vollrath 1991), and the lack of a sound theoretical background, which is provided by Costinot et al (2012) and Leromain and Orefice (2013) -the RCA index remains a popular tool for analysing the export competitiveness in the empirical trade literature.…”

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Export competitiveness of the European Union in fruit and vegetable products in the global markets

Bojnec¹,

Fertő²

2016

Agric. Econ. - Czech

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Abstract:Th e research provides evidence on the fruit and vegetable products export competitiveness of the European Union (EU-27) member states in the global markets. Th e revealed comparative advantage index is used to analyse the levels and compositions in the export competitiveness by diff erentiated fruit and vegetable products. Most of the EU-27 member states experienced revealed comparative disadvantages in the fruit and vegetable products in the global markets. Spain and the Netherlands experienced the most robust results of the revealed comparative advantages between 2000 and 2011 and among fruit and vegetable groups of products. Most other of the EU-27 member states with the comparative export advantages in fruit and vegetable products specialized in a certain segment or niche fruit and vegetable products.

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Overall Specialization Empirics: Techniques and Applications

Cited by 88 publications

References 32 publications

The duration of global agri-food export competitiveness

The duration of global agri-food export competitiveness

Overall trade specialization and economic development: countries diversify

Export competitiveness of the European Union in fruit and vegetable products in the global markets

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