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New Evidence on the Determinants of Industrial Specialisation

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  • Åsa Johansson

    (OECD)

  • Eduardo Olaberría

    (OECD)

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Industrial specialization has important implications for economic performance; therefore, understanding its determinants is of key policy relevance. This paper quantifies the relationship between factor endowments, policies and institutions and patterns of industrial specialisation in production using a new cross-country dataset compiled by WIOD that includes 37 OECD and non-OECD countries and 26 sectors. An advantage of this database –as compared with those used by previous studies- is that makes it possible to look at industrial specialization in terms of value added instead of gross exports, covering both services and manufactures in a panel of advanced and developing economies. The empirical methodology is based on the idea that industries vary in the conditions that they need for production, and countries differ in their ability to provide for these industry-specific requirements. We find that not only cross-country differences in factor endowments, such as capital and labour, but also differences in investment in R&D and policies or institutions, such as financial development, tariffs and taxes, and product and labour market regulation, can explain cross-country differences in industrial structure. Nouveaux résultats sur les déterminants de la spécialisation industrielle La spécialisation industrielle a des implications importantes pour les performances économiques. Il est, par conséquent, essentiel d’en comprendre les déterminants. Ce papier quantifie la relation entre les dotations en facteurs, les politiques et institutions et les modèles de spécialisation industrielle dans la production en utilisant une nouvelle base de données internationales compilée par WIOD, qui comprend 37 pays membres et non membres de l'OCDE et 26 secteurs. Un avantage de cette base de données, par rapport à celles utilisées par les études précédentes, est qu’elle permet d'analyser la spécialisation industrielle en termes de valeur ajoutée et non par la valeur des exportations brutes, et aussi qu’elle comprend les services et les produits manufacturés pour un groupe de pays avancés et émergents. La méthodologie empirique est basée sur l’idée que les industries diffèrent dans les conditions requises pour la production, et les pays diffèrent dans leur capacité à répondre à ces exigences spécifiques de l'industrie. Nous constatons que non seulement les dotations en facteurs, comme le capital et le travail, mais aussi les politiques ou les institutions, comme le développement financier, les tarifs et taxes, les investissements en R & D et la réglementation des marchés des produits et du travail, sont les principaux déterminants de la structure industrielle.

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  • Åsa Johansson & Eduardo Olaberría, 2014. "New Evidence on the Determinants of Industrial Specialisation," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 1112, OECD Publishing.
  • Handle: RePEc:oec:ecoaaa:1112-en
    DOI: 10.1787/5jz5m893txq2-en
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    Cited by:

    1. Andreas Kappeler, 2015. "Estonia: Raising Productivity and Benefitting more from Openness," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 1215, OECD Publishing.
    2. Alejandro Cunat & Szabolcs Deak & Marco Maffezzoli, 2022. "Tax Cuts in Open Economies," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, vol. 45, pages 83-108, July.
    3. Du, Julan & He, Qing & Zhang, Ce, 2022. "Risk sharing and industrial specialization in China," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 50(2), pages 599-626.
    4. Åsa Johansson & Eduardo Olaberría, 2014. "Long-term Patterns of Trade and Specialisation," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 1136, OECD Publishing.
    5. Åsa Johansson & Eduardo Olaberría, 2014. "Global Trade and Specialisation Patterns Over the Next 50 Years," OECD Economic Policy Papers 10, OECD Publishing.

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    Keywords

    droits de douane sur les biens intermédiaires; intermediate input tariff; trade; échanges;
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    JEL classification:

    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
    • O57 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Comparative Studies of Countries

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