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Economic Integration, Vertical and Horizontal Intra-industry Trade and Structural Adjustment: the Spanish Experience

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Current research in international trade suggests that intra-industry trade1 (simultaneous imports and exports of similar products) has acquired an increasing importance in the last years, particularly in the case of transactions of manufactured products among industrialised countries.

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Carrera-Gómez, G. (2004). Economic Integration, Vertical and Horizontal Intra-industry Trade and Structural Adjustment: the Spanish Experience. In: Coto-Millán, P. (eds) Essays on Microeconomics and Industrial Organisation. Contributions to Economics. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2670-8_13

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