A Note on the Balassa Index of Revealed Comparative Advantage

By Luca De Benedictis, Massimo Tamberi. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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• Revealed comparative advantage: What is it good for? (2017, background): “…if two countries have very similar patterns of comparative advantage, the trade barriers faced by 1See Yeats (1985) for an early critique of Balassa’s RCA index, and Vollrath (1991) and De Benedictis and Tamberi (2001) for surveys and discussions of the properties of various proposed measures.”
• The normalized revealed comparative advantage index (2009, background): “In addition, the transformation also makes the comparative–advantage-neutral point not generally determined but sensitive to the classification of commodities ( Benedictis and Tamberi 2001 ).”