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A worldwide event like the 2020 Coronavirus outbreak can only reinforce the interest in modelling trade diversification as a key factor in countries’ vulnerability to external shocks. This paper adopts a detailed relative framework to study the determinants of product-level export variety in a large bilateral panel of developing and developed economies (16,770 country pairs in the period 1988–2014). We find that country pairs characterized by large differentials in productivity and in the makeup of the labour force differ in export variety patterns. This result holds after controlling for other endowments and for trade costs. Further, productivity plays a significant role in the reduction of export variety dissimilarities between countries belonging to different income groups. Hence, without successful technological convergence the low-income economies will not be able to reduce their exposure to export risk.
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- Articles
- Type:
- artykuły w czasopismach
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ECONOMIC MODELLING
no. 92,
pages 48 - 56,
ISSN: 0264-9993 - Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Bibliographic description:
- Parteka A.: WHAT DRIVES CROSS-COUNTRY DIFFERENCES IN EXPORT VARIETY? A BILATERAL PANEL APPROACH// ECONOMIC MODELLING -Vol. 92, (2020), s.48-56
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- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1016/j.econmod.2020.07.001
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- Gdańsk University of Technology
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