Trade Liberalisation and “Revealed” Comparative Advantage<sup>1</sup>

Balassa, Béla

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9957.1965.tb00050.x

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“…The concept of Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) is used to highlight where countries benefit from an advantage and specialize in terms of trade (Maneschi, 2008). It was first developed by Balassa in 1965 and compares a country's share of world exports in a sector to its share of exports overall. It shows whether a country specializes in a specific product relative to other countries that export the same product.…”

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The competitive advantage of nations: An application to academia

Harzing

Giroud²

2014

Journal of Informetrics

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Within the field of bibliometrics, there is sustained interest in how nations "compete" in terms of academic disciplines, and what determinants explain why countries may have a specific advantage in one discipline over another. However, this literature has not, to date, presented a comprehensive structured model that could be used in the interpretation of a country's research profile and academic output. In this paper, we use frameworks from international business and economics to present such a model. Our study makes four major contributions. First, we include a very wide range of countries and disciplines, explicitly including the Social Sciences, which unfortunately are excluded in most bibliometrics studies. Second, we apply theories of revealed comparative advantage and the competitive advantage of nations to academic disciplines. Third, we cluster our 34 countries into five different groups that have distinct combinations of revealed comparative advantage in five major disciplines. Finally, based on our empirical work and prior literature, we present an academic diamond that details factors likely to explain a country's research profile and competitiveness in certain disciplines.

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The competitive advantage of nations: An application to academia

Harzing

Giroud²

2014

Journal of Informetrics

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“…A product with high RCA is competitive and can be exported to countries with low RCA. The traditional measure is the revealed comparative advantage (RCA) index (Balassa 1965). The concept of revealed comparative advantage pertains to the relative trade performance of individual countries in particular commodities.…”

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An Analysis of India-Bahrain Trade Relations

Yadav¹,

Yadav²

2017

IOSR JEF

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“…One common method to determine how specialized a country in the production of a product is by calculating Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) index (Balassa 1965;. 2 The index examines the proportion of a good produced or exported.…”

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Shifts in Pattern of Specialization: Case Studies of India and China

Widodo

2008

GADJAH MADA INT. J. BUS.

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This paper examines shifts in pattern of specialization of China’s and India’s exported groups of products defined in the three-digit Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) Revision 2. This paper applies Revealed Symmetric Comparative Advantages (RSCA) index and Spearman’s rank correlation. Some conclusions are withdrawn. First, on average the comparative advantages of both China and India increase, except in the case of China for the period of 1998-2003. Second, China’s pattern of comparative advantage changes more dynamically than that of India. Third, the China’s and India’s patterns of comparative advantage show different trends (divergent/more complementary).

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Trade Liberalisation and “Revealed” Comparative Advantage¹

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The competitive advantage of nations: An application to academia

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