On the Determinants of Intra-industry Trade: Specialization and Relative Factor Endowments

This paper derives a general relationship among intra-industry trade, specialization, and gravity. This relationship holds in any two-country trade model under assumptions that are frequently adopted in theoretical trade models. Using this general relationship, we can take an integrated approach to...

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Main Author: E. Young Song
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korea Institute for International Economic Policy 2007-12-01
Series:East Asian Economic Review
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.11644/KIEP.JEAI.2007.11.2.174