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dc.contributor.authorVarma, Poornima
dc.contributor.authorRamakrishnan, Anjali
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-10T06:14:20Z
dc.date.available2016-01-10T06:14:20Z
dc.date.copyright2014
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationVarma, P. (2015). An analysis of country specific determinants of vertical and horizontal intra-industry trade in the food processing sector of India. International Journal of Trade and Global Markets, 8(4), 324-342.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2321-7081
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11718/17326
dc.description.abstractThe growing evidence of intra-industry trade (IIT) in integrated markets has provided sufficient justification for trade in countries with similar endowments. While several studies have been undertaken looking at manufacturing and industrial goods, this article analyzes the structure and determinants of trade in agri-food products between India and members from its selected Free Trade Agreements (FTAs)—the South Asian Preferential Trade Agreement (SAFTA) and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). It is focused on agri-food products as the IIT literature in general is more focused on manufacturing products. The analysis found that India’s trade with partner countries is predominantly in the form of IIT. Nonetheless the relative IIT was found higher for countries such as Bhutan, Bangladesh and Nepal among SAFTA members and for Singapore among selected ASEAN members. The econometric analysis using to bit model showed that the free trade agreement had a positive impact on IIT. The empirical analysis further revealed that similarities in demand and agricultural-related factor endowments have a positive impact on IIT. Nonetheless macro variables from the supply side—GDP and per capita GDP—showed that the higher the dissimilarities the higher the IIT. The negative impact of increased average size on IIT is justifiable on account of the fact that the exploitation of scale advantages is lower for agri-food products as compared to other manufacturing productsen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen_US
dc.subjectSAFTAen_US
dc.subjectIITen_US
dc.subjectVIITen_US
dc.subjectHIITen_US
dc.subjectHIITen_US
dc.subjectagri-food productsen_US
dc.subjectIndiaen_US
dc.titleAn analysis of the structure and the determinants of intra-industry trade in agri-food products: case of India and selected FTAsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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