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    Rights statement: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: SSoo KT. Country size and trade in intermediate and final goods. World Econ. 2018;41:634–652. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12538 which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/twec.12538/abstract This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.

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Country size and trade in intermediate and final goods. / Soo, Kwok Tong.
In: The World Economy, Vol. 41, No. 2, 02.2018, p. 634-652.

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Soo, KT 2018, 'Country size and trade in intermediate and final goods', The World Economy, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 634-652. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12538

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Soo, K. T. (2018). Country size and trade in intermediate and final goods. The World Economy, 41(2), 634-652. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12538

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Soo KT. Country size and trade in intermediate and final goods. The World Economy. 2018 Feb;41(2):634-652. Epub 2017 Aug 18. doi: 10.1111/twec.12538

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Soo, Kwok Tong. / Country size and trade in intermediate and final goods. In: The World Economy. 2018 ; Vol. 41, No. 2. pp. 634-652.

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title = "Country size and trade in intermediate and final goods",
abstract = "This paper documents a negative relationship between country size and the share of final consumption goods in total exports. A model is developed, based on the division of labour and comparative advantage, to explain this relationship. Labour is used to produce traded intermediate inputs which are used in the production of traded final goods. Large countries gain relatively more from comparative advantage than from the division of labour, while the opposite is true for small countries. As in the data, large countries export a smaller share of final goods and a larger share of intermediate goods than small countries. It is shown that the model developed in the paper yields the same results as a model based on monopolistic competition. ",
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