Overall specialization empirics: Techniques and applications

Open Economies Review

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 323-346

  De Benedictis, Luca ^a   Tamberi, Massimo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACERATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Balassa Index; International trade; Nonparametrics; Revealed comparative advantage; Specialization

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; METHODOLOGY; SPECIALIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 9144247864     PISSN: 09237992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:OPEN.0000048522.97418.99     Document Type: Article

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