Unpacking sources of comparative advantage: A quantitative approach

• المؤلف الرئيسي: CHOR, Davin
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• الموضوعات: Comparative advantage; Gravity; Ricardian model; Factor endowments; Institutional determinants of trade; Simulated method of moments; International Economics
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1280; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2279/viewcontent/UnpackingSourcesComparativeAdvantage_2008_pp.pdf
• المؤسسة: Singapore Management University

This paper develops an approach for quantifying the importance of different sources of comparative advantage, by extending the Eaton and Kortum (2002) model to predict industry trade flows. In this framework, comparative advantage is determined by the interaction of country and industry characterist...