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How important is intra-industry trade in trade growth?

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  • Jayant Menon
  • Peter Dixon

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Empirical work on intra-industry trade (IIT) is almost 30 years old. Initial research sought to identify if IIT was a significant share of total trade (TT). The Grubel-Lloyd (GL) index was widely used for this purpose. Interest has since shifted to the changing importance of IITover time. Using movements in the GL index to infer the importance of IIT over time is not only vague, but can be misleading. In this article, we measure the contributions of growth in net trade (NT) and IIT to the growth in TT. To understand changes in IIT over time, we also derive the contributions of imports and exports to the growth in TT, NT, and IIT. All our formulas are illustrated with data for 205 Australian manufacturing industries. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1996

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  • Jayant Menon & Peter Dixon, 1996. "How important is intra-industry trade in trade growth?," Open Economies Review, Springer, vol. 7(2), pages 161-175, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:openec:v:7:y:1996:i:2:p:161-175
    DOI: 10.1007/BF01891902
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    4. Jayant Menon & Peter B. Dixon, 1995. "Regional Trading Arrangements and Intra-Industry Trade: The Case of ANZCERTA," Centre of Policy Studies/IMPACT Centre Working Papers g-114, Victoria University, Centre of Policy Studies/IMPACT Centre.
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    6. Jayant Menon, 1996. "How Reliable are Intra-Industry Trade Measures as Indicators of Adjustment Costs?," Centre of Policy Studies/IMPACT Centre Working Papers g-119, Victoria University, Centre of Policy Studies/IMPACT Centre.
    7. M. A. B. Siddique & Srikanta Chatterjee, 2002. "The CER in Action: A Closer Look at Australia-NZ Trade Flows Since 1983," Economics Discussion / Working Papers 02-18, The University of Western Australia, Department of Economics.

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