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Measuring Intra-Industry and Marginal Intra-Industry Trade : The Case for Turkey

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  • GÜZIN ERLAT
  • HALUK ERLAT

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Works on whether Turkey's trade structure is predominantly interindustry or intra-industry and whether there has been a shift toward intra-industry trade (IIT) after 1980 are of a limited number. The present study attempts to shed some light on these questions, stressing, in particular, changes in IIT. We consider Turkey's trade with the world for the 1969-99 period. We first use the Grubel-Lloyd (GL) index and find that there is a definite difference in the pattern of the weighted average of the three-digit (SITC, Rev. 3) sectoral GL indices, between the pre- and post-1980 periods. Even though the rate of IIT is greater in the post-1980 period, the distribution of the three-digit sectors according to their GL index values shows that Turkey's international trade is predominantly interindustry (IT). We next use Brülhart's (1994) A, B, and C indices of marginal IIT (MIIT) to investigate changes in IIT over time. Both the A and B indices indicate that there has been a significant change in MIIT between the pre- and post-1980 periods. We couple the C index, which gives us changes in the level of IIT for matched changes in trade, with Menon and Dixon's (1997) UMCIT index for unmatched changes, to assess the extent of adjustment required due to an increase in IIT. We find that, after 1980, gains in adjustment cost due to changes in IIT given by C are larger than the increase in such costs due to changes in IT, as given by UMCIT.

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  • Güzin Erlat & Haluk Erlat, 2003. "Measuring Intra-Industry and Marginal Intra-Industry Trade : The Case for Turkey," Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(6), pages 5-38, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:emfitr:v:39:y:2003:i:6:p:5-38
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    1. Sule Akkoyunlu & Konstantin A. Kholodilin & Boriss Siliverstovs, 2006. "The Effect of Economic Reforms of 1980s and of the Customs Union 1996 upon the Turkish Intra-Industry Trade," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 649, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
    2. Annette Spellerberg & Denis Huschka & Roland Habich, 2006. "Is the Regional Perspective Useful?: Rural and Urban Quality of Life ; an Assessment," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 650, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
    3. Pinar Narin Emirhan, 2005. "Determinants of Vertical Intra-Industry Trade of Turkey: Panel Data Approach," Discussion Paper Series 05/05, Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Business, Department of Economics, revised 23 Nov 2005.
    4. ERLAT Guzin & ERLAT Haluk, 2010. "Intra-Industry Trade and Labour Market Adjustment in Turkey," EcoMod2003 330700049, EcoMod.
    5. Abdul Azhar & Robert Elliott, 2011. "A Measure of Trade Induced Adjustment in Volume and Quality Space," Open Economies Review, Springer, vol. 22(5), pages 955-968, November.
    6. Sakshi Aggarwal & Debashis Chakraborty, 2020. "Labour Market Adjustment and Intra-Industry Trade: Empirical Results from Indian Manufacturing Sectors," Journal of South Asian Development, , vol. 15(2), pages 238-269, August.
    7. Kemal Turkcan, 2005. "Determinants of Intra-Industry Trade in Final Goods and Intermediate Goods between Turkey and Selected OECD Countries," Istanbul University Econometrics and Statistics e-Journal, Department of Econometrics, Faculty of Economics, Istanbul University, vol. 1(1), pages 21-40, May.
    8. Guzin Erlat & Haluk Erlat, 2012. "Measuring vertical and horizontal intra-industry trade: the case for Turkey," International Journal of Economics and Business Research, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 4(1/2), pages 149-165.

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