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Guimarães 2012, Capital Europeia da Cultura : impactos económicos e sociais : r...

Guimarães 2012 : capital europeia da cultura : impactos económicos e sociais : ...

Sendo este um relatório intercalar, elaborado no momento em que se aproxima o fi nal do primeiro semestre, o seu objetivo não pode por isso ser o de apresentar uma avaliação dos impactos do evento. Assim, o objetivo deste relatório é o de contribuir, através da informação que tem vindo ser coligida pela equipa técnica, com a colaboração da Fundação Cidade de Guimarães, para uma refl exão sobre a forma como a Gu...

Determinants of export diversification and sophistication in Sub-Saharan Africa

This paper studies the political and economic factors that determine successful export diversification (ED) and export sophistication (ES) strategies in the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries and also the way in which successful ED and sophistication strategies contribute to explain the improving in some of the millennium development goals (MDG). We run separate regressions for the determinants of ES and ED, u...

Vertical intra-industry trade and differences in endowments : revisiting the em...

This paper investigates the relationship between differences in endowments and different types of trade, in particular vertical intra-industry trade (VIIT). We build a general equilibrium framework based on a hybrid of the Chamberlain-Heckscher-Ohlin and the specific factors models that generates predictions about how the shares of different types of intra- and interindustry or net trade flows change with diffe...

The dynamics of international trade patterns

This paper introduces new dynamic measures for examining changes in international trade patterns. Using data for 20 OECD countries over the 1980–2000 period, we show that inter-industry trade changes contrary to countries’ previous specialization are frequently the dominant form of trade expansion. The econometric analysis indicates that the observed changes in trade patterns were explained by initial endowment...

The skill content of Inter- and intra-industry trade : evidence for the United ...

In this paper we investigate the relative importance of net exchanges of skills embodied in intra-industry and inter-industry trade for the UK’s trade with some middle income countries. We also separately measure the net exchanges of skills embodied in vertical and horizontal intra-industry trade (IIT). We find that there are substantial factor exchanges involved in IIT, implying that traditional factor content...