Overall Specialization Empirics: Techniques and Applications

Luca De Benedictis () and Massimo Tamberi ()

Open Economies Review, 2004, vol. 15, issue 4, pages 323-346

Abstract: It is customary in the empirical trade literature to analyze specialization patterns of countries using Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) measures. This paper explores the informational content of the most commonly used RCA index: the Balassa (1965) Index of RCA.

Date: 2004
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