Thesis (master's)--Thammasat University, May, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 132-137).

International trade plays an important role in Taiwan economic development. In recent years, under the globalization and regionalization tendencies, Taiwan faced huge challenges. The international relationship between Taiwan and China had been improved a lot. The bilateral trade between Taiwan and China is the getting more and more important. This paper measures intra- industry trade (IIT) indicators between Taiwan and China from 2000 to 2008 to analyze the bilateral trade structure between Taiwan and China. I analyze further how the horizontal or the vertical IIT is orientated by relative unit va lue of imports and exports to identify differences in the quality of products traded between Taiwan and China. We also investigate market size, demand similarity, and trade imbalance to be determinants of the IIT structure. Other influenc ing factors include foreign direct Investment and barriers to trade. The empirical results show that, in general, the number of industries that engage in IIT and the overall level of IIT have been increased. We also find that the majority of IIT industries belongs to vertical IIT (VIIT), and the pattern of expansion is dominated by VIIT as well. For most industries, Chinese products imported from Taiwan are generally of a higher quality than the products Taiwanese products imported from China. And furthermore the policy implications discussions on the Government¡¦s promoting domestic and cross strait economy measures are conducted and derived.

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Thesis (B.Sc. (Honours) in Economics)--Singapore Management University, 2006. / Senior thesis in part fulfillment for the BSc (Honours) in Economics degree presented to the School of Economics and Social Sciences, Singapore Management University 2005-2006. Includes bibliographical references (p. 31-33).

This paper aims to use intra-industry trade (IIT) indices from 2000 to 2007 years to analyze whether and how the bilateral trade structure between Taiwan and China has changed and developed in recent years and predict the trend in the future. In order to treat the division of labor, we analyze further the horizontal or the vertical IIT is oriented by using relative unit values of imports and exports to identify differences in the quality of products that are traded between Taiwan and China. Besides, we add several independent variables and find out the influence factors of the whole IIT are market size, demand similarity, and trade imbalance by using Ordinary Least Squares method. Also, the influence factors of IT industry are foreign direct investment and barriers to trade. The empirical results show that, in general, the number of industries that engage in IIT and the level of IIT have increased. We also find that the majority of IIT is belonged to vertical differences, and the pattern of expansion is dominated by VIIT as well. Productions that are imported to China from Taiwan are generally of a higher quality than products imported to Taiwan from China, however, this paper also notes that in some industries the reverse is true.

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- McMaster University, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available via World Wide Web.

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After East Asian financial crisis in 1997 and European monetary unification in 1999, if it is suitable of establishing the Asian common monetary area becomes the hot topic. The precondition of establishing the monetary policy cooperation depends on the synchronization of various countries¡¦ business cycle co-movement. And the trade is the connector among the countries. Trade linkages seemed to have an influence on business cycle co-movement. Countries with close international trade link are more likely to be members of an optimal currency area. According to the theoretical literature, the impact of trade integration on business cycle correlation may go either way. On the one hand, if trade occurs mainly by Heckscher-Ollin or is of the Ricardian type, higher specialization would induce the industrial structures of the trading countries to diverge, resulting in less synchronized movements of business cycle. In contrast, if trade occurs mainly through intra-industry trade, specialization does not necessarily lead to less synchronized. In summary, the total effect of trade intensity on cycle correlation is theoretically ambiguous and poses a question that could only be solved empirically. The volume of trade in East Asia has increased continuously. This paper extends the study of Frankel and Rose (1998) to analyze the impact of trade integration on business cycle correlation and intra-industry trade by using SITC data and other macroeconomic factors. Moreover, using two-stage estimation and instruments to take into account the fact that trade intensity itself may be endogenous. Then, we use panel data to estimate our equation. By gathering annual information of 10 East Asian countries from 1987 to 2005, we found that higher trade integration leads higher business cycle synchronization. To sum up, intra-industry trade is the process of establishing East Asian common monetary area.

<p>The purpose of the thesis is to determine whether Russia has changed its intra-industry trade pattern with Sweden between the years of 1997 and 2003. To be able to see any changes five products, vehicles, grain, forest, optical instruments and jewellery has been chosen. With the Grubel-Lloyd index the products will be analysed and the index will also measure the extent of the intra-industry trade between Sweden and Russia</p><p>Theories predict that countries with similar factor endowments and income tend to have a two-way trade which would indicate that Russia is starting to catch up to the industrialised countries, in this thesis that would be Sweden. The theory of income effects predicts that when consumers are getting a larger budget they will start to move away from the most necessary goods and towards more luxury good consumption.</p>

<p>The purpose of this thesis is to analyse the pattern of intra-industry trade (IIT) between Sweden and EU 15 during the time period 1980-2002. Focus is put on the Swedish manu-facturing industry, which has been divided into the forest, metal and machinery industries. With help of the Grubel-Lloyd index, values have been calculated in order to measure the size of IIT with the other Member States and in product groups.</p><p>Theories about two-way trade argue that countries with similar characteristics have more IIT. The results from the empirical findings show that the Swedish IIT is higher with nearby countries such as Denmark, Finland and Germany. Similar for these countries are the factor endowments, GDP per capita, culture, language, and the closeness to Sweden. The forest industry has more net trade than IIT. In the metal and machinery industries, the IIT is as large as the net trade. Regarding two-way trade within product groups, the analysis proved that products which can be differentiated into more sub-groups have more IIT. A large part of the products have higher net trade than IIT.</p>