Towards a more general measure of revealed comparative advantage variation

被引:12
作者
Cai, Junning [2 ]
Leung, PingSun [1 ]
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[1] Univ Hawaii Manoa, Coll Trop Agr & Human Resources, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
[2] Chinese Acad Finance & Dev, Cent Univ Finance & Econ, Beijing, Peoples R China
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10.1080/13504850600748992
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F [经济];
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02 ;
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The change of Balassa's 'revealed comparative advantage' index is often directly used to measure comparative advantage variation over time, yet the theoretical foundation of this traditional measure has not been clarified. In this article we derive a 'revealed comparative advantage variation' index, which turns out to be a more general measure of comparative advantage variation than the traditional one.
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页码:723 / 726
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