boltho, andrea
The paper computes Balassa’s index of revealed comparative advantage for machinery and equipment (a rough proxy for high-tech goods) for a number of emerging areas (East Asia, South-East Asia, South Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East) and for selected individual countries over some 50 years, from the early 1970s to the...
Juhász, Réka Steinwender, Claudia
Published in
Annual Review of Economics
We discuss recent work evaluating the role of the government in shaping the economy during the long nineteenth century, a practice we refer to as industrial policy. States deployed a vast variety of different policies aimed primarily, but not exclusively, at fostering industrialization. A thin but growing literature has started to evaluate the econ...
Bown, Chad P.
This article surveys the economics of industrial policy as it relates to the World Trade Organization (WTO). Motivated by concern that the modern use of industrial policy is emerging in ways that threaten cooperation in the international trading system, the article begins with the basic historical economic framework for tying industrial policy to u...
Juhász, Réka Lane, Nathan Rodrik, Dani
We discuss the considerable literature that has developed in recent years providing rigorous evidence on how industrial policies work. This literature is a significant improvement over the earlier generation of empirical work, which was largely correlational and marred by interpretational problems. On the whole, the recent crop of papers offers a m...
Romero-Ramírez, Héctor
Abstract: This paper studies the evolution of the productive structure of Puerto Rico between 1967 and 1992. In order to examine the evolution, Input-Output, and network analysis techniques were used, which allowed us to illustrate the significant relationships in the structure. Diameter and Density were estimated, and it was found that economic ac...
yang, wei wang, xueke zhou, dandan
Cultivating strategic emerging industries (SEIs) is an important strategy for most countries around the world to seize the economic frontier. Academics have not yet reached a unified conclusion on whether the adoption of industrial policy from the government level can effectively promote its R&D and innovation behaviors and contribute to industrial...
Cao, Wei Jia, Yu Tan, Benwei
Published in
Frontiers in Environmental Science
Effective industrial policies need to be implemented, particularly aligning with environmental protection goals to drive the high-quality growth of China’s economy in the new era. Setting up national high-tech zones falls under the purview of both regional and industrial policies. Using panel data from 163 prefecture-level cities in China from 2007...
jagani, sandeep marsillac, erika hong, paul
The automotive industry is evolving due to the increasing adoption of Electric Vehicles (EVs). This transition has impacted automotive vehicles and led to profound changes in the supply chain ecosystem. Through a comprehensive review of the available literature and industry reports, this research investigates the automotive industry’s transition to...
Calá, Carla Daniela
In this work, we investigate and describe some assistance practices for firms which were carried out in five industrial parks in Argentina in recent years. We also identify some of their real or potential limitations, as well as the factors that explain their successful development, in order to reflect on the way in which a provincial or national p...
Lejoux, Patricia Linossier, Rachel
Cet article vise à apporter de nouveaux éléments de connaissances sur la dimension institutionnelle des effets locaux de la performance économique des territoires. Il cherche plus particulièrement à comprendre le rôle que peuvent jouer les collectivités locales, en l’occurrence les métropoles, dans le dynamisme industriel de leur territoire. Il ana...
