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标题：Revealed Comparative Advantage and Competitiveness of the Turkish Manufacturing Sector in the European Market
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作者：Betul Altay Topcu ; Emine Kilavuz
期刊名称：International Journal of Economics and Finance Studies
电子版ISSN：1309-8055
出版年度：2012
卷号：4
期号：2
出版社：Social Sciences Research Society
摘要：The purpose of this paper is to analyse the competitive performance of the Turkish Manufacturing Sector after the Custom Union Agreement with the EU and to determine whether or not the pattern of comparative advantage for Turkey has undergone a structural shift over the period 1996-2006. Then we examine if Turkey’s pattern of comparative advantage is related with industry-level productivity differentials or with differences in factor endowments. The manufacturing sector was chosen because the Custom Union covers all industrial goods but does not address agricultural products (except processed agricultural products), service or public procurement. The Revealed Comparative Advantages (RCA) index and Vollrath’s competitiveness indices are used to identify whether or not Turkey has a comparative advantage in any particular product group. In the calculating of these indices, the manufacturing industry is divided into four groups according to intensity of technology: high-tech industries, medium-to-high-tech industries, medium-to-low-tech industries and low-tech industries. It is known that a Custom Union can, in theory, have significant dynamic effects, such as increased competition, stimulation of technical change and investment. There are a number of studies where RCA has been used to investigate the competitiveness of Turkish exports. This study differs from others in terms of the classification of manufacturing sectors according to their technological characteristics.
关键词：Revealed Comparative Advantage; Specialization; Competitiveness;Measures