| 
                
                  
                    | University
                              of Washington Tacoma Geography of
                              International Trade
 
 
 
 USEFUL LINKS
                        (please send suggestions of useful links to me)
                       See the UW
                            Libraries guide to resources for
                          this course.
 
 Examples of comparative advantage research
 
 Batra, A. and Khan, Z.  2005.  Revealed
                      comparative advantage: an analysis for India and
                      China.  Working
                        Paper 168.  New Delhi:  Indian Council for
                        Research International Economic Relations.
 This paper makes use of several international
                        organizations' categorizations of economic
                        sectors based on relative factor intensity.
 
 Shirotori, M., Tumurchudur, B., and Cadot,
                      O.  2010.  Revealed factor intensity
                      indices at the product level.  Policy
                        Issues in International Trade and Commodities
                        Study Series, No. 44.  New York: 
                      United Nations.
 This paper creates indices for capital stock,
                        human capital stock, and arable land ratios (to
                        GDP) for 5 clusters of world countries (Section
                        2.2), and uses estimates of factor intensity of
                        products (section 3.2).  The authors
                        caution that estimating factor intensities for
                        highly aggregated sectors (e.g., SITC 1-digit
                        sectors) is problematic:
 
 Factor intensities vary
                          substantially not just between, but also
                          within industries, and this pattern remains at
                          all levels of disaggregation. For instance, an
                          industry sector, SITC 65 (textile yarns,
                          fabrics, made-up articles) covers a wide
                          variety of goods whose factor contents vary
                          from the least human/physical capital
                          intensive to the most capital intensive (table
                          24b).  This suggests that analyses of the
                          factor content of trade, whether motivated by
                          the empirical validation of trade models or by
                          policy advice, should best be carried out at
                          high degrees of disaggregation [page 26].Kowalski, P.  
                        2011.  Comparative Advantage and Trade
                      Performance: Policy Implications.  OECD Trade
                      Policy
 Papers No. 121.  OECD
                        Publishing.
 See pages 37-38 for graphical representation of
                        the relative skilled-labor, unskilled-labor,
                        capital, and energy intensities of economic
                        sectors.
 
 
 |  
 copyright James W.
                    Harrington revised 27 December 2013
 
                     
 
 |