Putting Things In Order: Trade Dynamics And Product Cycles

Robert Feenstra and Andrew Rose

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2000, vol. 82, issue 3, 369-382

Abstract: We develop a procedure to rank-order objects using censored panel data sets. We illustrate this by ranking countries and commodities using disaggregated American import data and find evidence that countries and commodities can be ranked. Countries habitually begin to export goods to the United States according to an ordering; goods are also exported in order. We estimate these orderings using a methodology, that takes account of the fact that most goods are not exported by most countries in our sample. Our orderings seem sensible, robust, and intuitive, and they are correlated with macroeconomic phenomena such as productivity and growth rates. © 2000 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Date: 2000
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