Intra-Industry Trade Expansion and Employment Reallocation between Sectors and Occupations

The Nexus between Economic Growth and Intra-Industry Trade

According to traditional trade theories, foreign trade affects economic growth via several channels such as knowledge and technology spillover, improvement of resources allocation, increasing productivity and competitiveness. Within the framework of new trade theories, the effect of foreign trade on economic growth is ambiguous, and this effect depends on the combination of the different effect...

The Role of Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) between Iran and Malaysia their Intra industry Trade (IIT)

The Impact of Sanction on Bilateral Intra-Industry Trade between Iran and SCO Countries

This paper analyses the impact of sanctions against Iran in addition to other country-specific determinants on intra-industry trade between Iran and Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) countries over the period 1997-2013. By disentangling total intra-industry trade (IIT) into horizontal and vertical IIT and after investigating bilateral trade pattern between Iran and SCO countries, determin...

Vertical intra-industry trade between EU and Accession Countries

The paper analyses vertical intra-industry trade between EU and Accession countries, and concentrates on two country-specific determinants: Differences in personal income distribution and in technology. Both determinants have a strong link to national policies and to cross-border investment flows. In contrast to most other studies, income distribution is not seen as time-invariant variable, but...

Trade Liberalization and Inter-industry Reallocation in Indonesia

First and foremost I would like to thank Professor Joel Rodrigue, without whom none of this would have been possible. My greatest thanks to Professor Mario Crucini as well, for numerous helpful suggestions along the way. I am indebted to the Vanderbilt Undergraduate Summer Research Program for their generous support of my research during the summer of 2010. And thank you to my fellow honors stu...