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- ISSN: 18151973 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/18151973
How Market Imperfections and Trade Barriers Shape Specialisation
South-America vs. OECD
The paper set out four types of market structure clusters (based on an OECD benchmark) to assess different entry barriers, both endogenous and policy-induced that may affect the ability of enterprises in emerging countries to penetrate international markets. This framework is then applied to analyse the trade specialisation of Argentina, Brazil and Chile (ABC) compared to that of three OECD countries, Ireland, Korea and Mexico ...
Keywords: trade barriers, specialisation, market structure, South America
JEL:
O14: Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth / Economic Development / Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology;
F14: International Economics / Trade / Empirical Studies of Trade;
L16: Industrial Organization / Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance / Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics: Industrial Structure and Structural Change; Industrial Price Indices;
O54: Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth / Economywide Country Studies / Economywide Country Studies: Latin America; Caribbean;
F12: International Economics / Trade / Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
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