Beyond Flying Geese: The Expansion of East Asia’s Electronics Trade

Tung An-Chi
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Tung An-Chi: Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Nangang District,Taipei, Taiwan

German Economic Review, 2003, vol. 4, issue 1, 35-51

Abstract: The flying geese (FG) hypothesis, which asserts the sequential catching-up processes of the latecomers, holds well in the past. Yet a simultaneous boom within the electronics industry across East Asia casts doubt on the applicability of the hypothesis. By using the RCA and NET indices, the paper finds that the FG pattern shows in the electronics industry as a whole, but not always so at the disaggregated level. This suggests that the FG formation may not appear in other industries, if they are involved in international production fragmentation or have differentiated products, and if certain latecomers have become new leaders.

Keywords: Flying geese pattern; East Asia; electronics; trade; RCA; net trade index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1111/1468-0475.00072

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