Export Variety and Economic Growth in East European Transition Economies

Funke, Michael; Ruhwedel, Ralf

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“…This indicates that integration into the EU market occurs not only in the intensive but also in the extensive dimension. The result of growing export variety is also in line with the analysis made by Funke and Ruhwedel (2005) who reported increasing export variety for NMSs in 1993-2000. The most significant progress in the extensive margin is estimated for Latvia which, compared with German variety, increased its export variety from 25 percent in 1999 to almost 50 percent in 2009.…”

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The quality and variety of exports from the new EU member states

Beņkovskis

Rimgailaite

2011

Economics of Transition

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The goal of this article is to evaluate the variety and quality of exports from the new EU member states (NMSs) in the period 1999-2009. The practical relevance of such an analysis is threefold: recent studies underline the importance of export variety for economic growth; empirical results show that export variety was influenced by the EU membership; and looking separately at export quality permits a better understanding of price competitiveness. Our results show that all NMSs significantly increased the average number of brands exported to the EU market, the largest increases being observed in 2004 and after. This indicates that integration into the EU market occurs in the extensive as well as the intensive dimension. We also find that all NMSs increased the average quality of their exports during the decade studied although there are differences between countries. Thus, a large part of the increase in the prices of exports from NMSs resulted from improving quality and did not result in a loss of competitiveness. Finally, estimates of relative quality are much more stable than relative prices, suggesting that our measure of relative quality is better than the traditional proxy.JEL classifications: C43, F12, F14, O52.

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Section: Figure 1 Mean Relative Variety Of Total Exports To Eu In 2009supporting

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The quality and variety of exports from the new EU member states

Beņkovskis

Rimgailaite

2011

Economics of Transition

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“…Their results also conclude that export variety manages to explain within‐county variations in productivity but not the absolute productivity differences between countries. Our results are also in line with Funke and Ruhwedel ().…”

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“…According to Funke and Ruhwedel (), the size of the export product variety (out of a total of about 6,400 products) in countries’ exports to the United States explained changes in relative GDP per capita levels in the OECD countries in 1989–1996. Funke and Ruhwedel () analyse 14 European transition countries in 1993–2000 using export data for 1,473 products. In their semi‐endogenous growth model, the degree of product variety is found in the production function the same way labour‐augmenting technology is present in the traditional Solow growth model.…”

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“…We use panel least squares in EViews to analyse whether changes in the number of exported products as a share of all possible export products are associated with GDP per capita growth over 1995–2015. This is basically the method used by Funke and Ruhwedel (), but with a larger set of countries, longer time span and more products. Notice that data for the new member countries start only in 1999.…”

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Export product range and economic growth in theEUcountries

Kaitila

2018

World Economy

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We analyse the number of different HS8 products in the EU countries’ exports in 1995–2015. We review what share, or coverage, of the total possible number of these products the countries have exported each year. The EU15 countries have typically witnessed a slow rise in this coverage rate, that is, a widening of their extensive margins. The exception is Finland where the share has declined considerably. On the other hand, Ireland, Greece, Portugal and the new member countries have seen a dramatic increase in their export product coverage. We analyse how the development in the coverage rate and, as a comparison, the diversification of exports as measured by the Herfindahl–Hirschman index are associated with GDP per capita growth. We find that changes in the former measure are positively associated with economic growth after we have controlled for GDP per capita catching‐up as well as investment and export activity. We also find that smaller EU economies do not specialise more than large ones in their exports as could perhaps be assumed.

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“…A number of existing studies find a positive relationship between export diversification and economic growth (De Ferranti et al 2002;Al-Marhubi 2000;Hausmann and Rodrik 2006;Matthee and Naudé 2007;Funke and Ruhwedel 2005). Feenstra and Kee (2004) find that a 10% increase in export variety in a country's industries raises a country's productivity with 1.3%.…”

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Export diversification and economic performance: evidence from Brazil, China, India and South Africa

Naudé

Rossouw

2010

Econ Change Restruct

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In this paper we discuss relationship between export diversity and economic performance, focusing on Brazil, China, India and South Africa (BCIS). Using time data on exports over the period 1962–2000 and Applied General Equilibrium (AGE) models for each country, we note the similarities as well as differences in the patterns of diversification in these countries. We find evidence of a U-shape relationship between per capita income and export specialization in at least China and South Africa, and given that the results from Granger causality testing are inconclusive and not robust with regards to export diversification measures, some preliminary evidence from the results suggest that export diversification Granger causes GDP per capita in Brazil, China and South Africa, but not in India, where it is rather GDP per capita changes that are driving export diversification. From AGE modeling we find that South Africa differs from the other economies in that it is the only case where export diversification has an unambiguously positive impact on economic development while in contrast in Brazil, China and India, it is rather export specialization that is preferred. We show that the manner in which export diversification is obtained may be important: if it is obtained with less of a reduction in traditional exports, the impacts are better (less negative). Copyright UNU-WIDER 2011Exports, Diversification, Specialization, Applied general equilibrium modeling, Brazil, China, India, South Africa, F10, F14, O24, O14, O55,

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Export Variety and Economic Growth in East European Transition Economies

Cited by 17 publications

References 38 publications

The quality and variety of exports from the new EU member states

The quality and variety of exports from the new EU member states

Export product range and economic growth in theEUcountries

Export diversification and economic performance: evidence from Brazil, China, India and South Africa

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