How Does Industrialization Affect the Structure of International Trade? : The Japanese Experience in the Pacific Basin, 1975-85 /

This paper provides a theoretical model to address the issue of how industrialization affects the structure of international trade. Considering both horizontal and vertical product differentiation, the model shows that intra-industry trade increases when product quality improvement emerges in a deve...

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Autore principale: Shirai, Sayuri
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1994.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1994/095
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF