Texas Comparative Advantage and Manufacturing Exports

Jesús Cañas, Luis Bernardo Torres Ruiz and Christina English

Chapter 11 in Ten-Gallon Economy, 2015, pp 159-179 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Texas exports more than any other US state. While Texas has gained global market share in some industries, it has lost ground in others. We identify the comparative advantage of Texas’ exports and analyze how that has evolved over the past decade. We then look at Texas’ comparative advantage versus its primary global competitors and analyze domestic competitors based on how total factor productivity could have influenced export performance. The results suggest that Texas’ comparative advantage in manufacturing markets has increased as Texas industries have become more productive. In addition, the results show that relative wage differentials have allowed Texas to become more competitive and gain global market share vis-à-vis its closest domestic rivals.

Keywords: Total Factor Productivity; Census Bureau; Comparative Advantage; Reveal Comparative Advan; North American Industry Classification System (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-53017-2_11

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9781137530172

DOI: 10.1057/9781137530172_11

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().