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Comparative Advantage

Comparative Advantage is an economic principle in international trade theory stating that an economy has a comparative advantage in producing a good when it can produce that good at a lower opportunity cost relative to other goods than another economy.

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15.1K

The Competitive Advantage of Nations

Terry Clark, Michael Porter · Journal of Marketing · 1991 · 17.7K citations

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An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change

Michael K. Berkowitz, Richard R. Nelson, Sidney G. Winter · Southern Economic Journal · 1983 · 10.9K citations

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Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage

Philip K. Porter, Peter A. Hall, David Soskice · Academy of Management Review · 2003 · 7.6K citations

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Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns, and Lock-In by Historical Events

W. Brian Arthur · The Economic Journal · 1989 · 7.3K citations

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The Economic Implications of Learning by Doing

Kenneth J. Arrow · The Review of Economic Studies · 1962 · 7K citations

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Authors

16.9K

  1. JR
    James R. Markusen

    University of Colorado Boulder, United States

    41 publications · 10.2K citations

    35

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  2. DG
    David Greenaway

    University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

    59 publications · 6.4K citations

    34

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  3. RC
    Robert C. Feenstra

    University of California, Davis, United States

    41 publications · 6K citations

    28

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  4. AJ
    Anthony J. Venables

    London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

    37 publications · 9K citations

    28

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  5. PK
    Paúl Krugman

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    32 publications · 15.8K citations

    28

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Institutions

3.6K

  1. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    108 h-index

    618 publications

    87.5K citations

  2. Centre for Economic Policy Research

    London, United Kingdom

    81 h-index

    383 publications

    30.6K citations

  3. World Bank

    Washington, United States

    74 h-index

    297 publications

    31.5K citations

  4. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    65 h-index

    187 publications

    26K citations

  5. University of Nottingham

    Nottingham, United Kingdom

    61 h-index

    237 publications

    21.9K citations

  6. International Monetary Fund

    Washington D.C., United States

    61 h-index

    377 publications

    29.1K citations

  7. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    56 h-index

    131 publications

    15.5K citations

  8. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    55 h-index

    126 publications

    23.3K citations

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  1. Journal of International Economics

    516 publications · 73.1K citations

    132

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  2. American Economic Review

    199 publications · 57.1K citations

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  3. The Economic Journal

    286 publications · 49.9K citations

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  4. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 1K publications · 41.3K citations

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  5. World Development

    192 publications · 17.6K citations

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