Has Asian export performance been unique?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Noland, M
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1996(96)01461-4
• 发表日期: 1997
• 页码: 79-101
• 关键词: International trade; Economic growth; trade and growth; Trade specialization; asia

摘要

It is often argued that technological spillovers or other externalities associated with exports or trade are sector-specific, yet trade and growth linkages are typically examined at the level of macroeconomic aggregates. This paper extends the analysis another level of specificity, analyzing the commodity composition of trade. This paper addresses three interrelated sets of questions. First, have Asian countries exhibited unusually high exports in particular industries'! Has their commodity composition of exports been unusually concentrated? Second, has specialization in particular sectors emerged unusually rapidly the case of Asian countries? Third, can export similarity across Asian countries be explained by economic fundamentals? (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.