... quality institutional framework enhances contract enforcement, thus lowering the trade costs and risks of trading abroad. Thus, good institutions create a source of a country’s comparative advantage through production in relationship-specific investments (Nunn, 2007 ; Feenstra et al., 2013...

... as leading exporters (FAO, 2018). In contrast, warmer countries might increasingly shift toward developing less climate-sensitive sectors such as manufacturing and services, thereby altering their comparative advantages (Conte et al., 2020 ; Nath, 2022). This shift is especially likely as evidence...

... of quotas can be explained by comparative advantage and market size. Design/methodology/approach We use a gravity framework to investigate the role of comparative advantage (labor costs) and other factors such as exporter size, PTAs and tariff reductions on the pattern of US apparel imports. Detailed...

... that Egyptian trade with China is less than it should be. The low values of the intra‐industry trade index suggest smaller trade between the two countries' firms in the same industry. The study clearly shows that there are few areas where there is an overlap in the two countries' comparative advantage...