Semiparametric Analysis of the Specialization-Income Relationship

8 Pages Posted: 1 Jun 2005

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Luca De Benedictis

University of Macerata; Luiss University

Marco Gallegati

Polytechnic University of Marche - Faculty of Economics

Massimo Tamberi

Polytechnic University of Marche - Faculty of Economics

Date Written: May 2005

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the empirical relationship between overall specialization and per capita income. The metric we use to measure overall specialization is the median of the sectoral distribution of the Balassa index of Revealed Comparative Advantages applied to 4-digit (SITC rev.2) sectoral export manufactured data for 39 countries over the period 1985-2001.

The result of the semiparametric analysis is that a negative relationship between this metric and per capita income emerges.

Keywords: Specialization, semiparametric regression

JEL Classification: C14, F10, F43, O57

Suggested Citation

De Benedictis, Luca and Gallegati, Marco and Tamberi, Massimo, Semiparametric Analysis of the Specialization-Income Relationship (May 2005). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=732263 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.732263

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