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Hence, as intra-industry trade has developed many economists have looked at other explanations. One attempt to explain IIT was made by Finger (1975), who thought that occurrence of intra-industry trade was “unremarkable” as existing classifications place goods of heterogeneous factor endowments in a single industry.
This means for example the Country in consideration Exports the same quantity of good i as much as it Imports. Conversely, if GL i = 0, there is no intra-industry trade at all. This would mean that the Country in consideration only either Exports or only Imports good i .
Marginal Intra-Industry Trade, a concept originating in international economics, refers to the degree to which the change in a country's exports over a certain period of time are essentially of the same products as its change in imports over the same period.
New Trade theorists challenge the assumption of diminishing returns to scale, and some argue that using protectionist measures to build up a huge industrial base in certain industries would then allow those sectors to dominate the world market via a network effect. See also Intra-industry trade.
Data was extracted from the World Trade Organization's Trade Profile Database. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Colour indicate leading merchandise export destination for indicated country (EU aggregated), c. 2007-10 Colour indicate leading source of merchandise imports for indicated country (EU aggregated), c. 2007-10
Subsequent developments in the new trade theory, motivated in part by the empirical shortcomings of the H–O model and its inability to explain intra-industry trade, have provided an explanation for aspects of trade that are not accounted for by comparative advantage. [20]
For example, Carter used his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in 2002, which came during the lead up to the United States' invasion of Iraq, to spotlight his religious beliefs.
Marc Melitz and Pol Antràs started a new trend in the study of international trade. While new trade theory put emphasis on the growing trend of intermediate goods, this new trend emphasizes firm level differences in the same industry of the same country and this new trend is frequently called 'new' new trade theory (NNTT).