本文运用贸易专业化指数分析了亚洲8个主要国家的农产品比较优势。分析结果表明:由于要素禀赋的差异和经济发展阶段不同而产生了要素相对价格差异,这些国家的农产品比较优势显示了不同的比较优势变化趋势;这些国家贸易特化系数估计值的差异意味着他们的农产品贸易存在互补机会;三个东亚国家和两个东盟国家的比较优势变化模式属于典型的变化模式,但是马来西亚和印度的比较优势则显示了异常的变化路径。
This paper analyses the comparative advantages of agricultural products in eight major Asian countries by using the Trade Specialization Coefficient, and comes to the following conclusions: firstly, these eight Asian countries show different trends of agricultural comparative advantage because of the difference in resource endowments and relative prices of factors at different economic development phases; secondly, different TSCs of these Asian countries mean that there exist opportunities for complementary agricultural trade between them; thirdly, the change patterns of the comparative advantages of the three Eastern Asian countries (Japan, Korea and China) and two ASEAN countries' (Thailand and Philippines') all belong to the typical type, while those of Malaysia and India both show an unusual change route.