Comparative advantages in U.S. bilateral services trade with China and India

被引:16
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作者
Nath, Hiranya K. [1 ]
Liu, Lirong [1 ]
Tochkov, Kiril [2 ]
机构
[1] Sam Houston State Univ, Dept Econ & Int Business, Huntsville, TX 77341 USA
[2] Texas Christian Univ, Dept Econ, Ft Worth, TX 76129 USA
关键词
Services trade; Comparative advantage (CA); Comparative disadvantage (CDA); Revealed symmetric comparative advantage (RSCA); Trade balance index (TBI);
D O I
10.1016/j.asieco.2015.04.002
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
Using bilateral trade data for 16 service categories, this paper examines the patterns, evolution, and determinants of comparative advantage (CA) in U.S. services trade with China and India from 1992 to 2010. The results indicate that the U.S. has a CA in most services, except in more traditional ones, such as travel and transportation. However, India, and more recently China, gained a CA in modern services, such as computer and information services during the period considered in this paper. An examination of the distributional dynamics indicates that the likelihood of U.S. gaining CA over an initial position of comparative disadvantage (CDA) in its trade of a particular service with India is higher than the probability of losing its initial dominance. In contrast, the U.S. CA or CDA vis-a-vis China exhibits high levels of persistence over time. The regression results suggest that relative abundance of sector-specific labor, human capital, and FDI inflows have been significant sources of CA for the U.S. over both China and India. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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页码:79 / 92
页数:14
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