Export-Oriented Multinationals and the Quality of International Specialisation in Central European Countries

Éric Rugraff ()
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Éric Rugraff: BETA - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Export-oriented multinationals have deeply changed the specialisation of the Central European countries by developing exports and imports of products with high- and medium-high skill and technology intensity. Based on the evolution of the export share of high- and medium-high-technology products, the comparative advantages in high- and medium-high- technology products and the utilisation of imports of these products, we show that the quality of specialisation by the Central European countries has dramatically increased since the mid-1990s. However, we also suggest that the low level of value added locally in the Central European countries, which is related to the decomposition of the value chain organised on a European level by the multinationals, is a fragile element of their international specialisation.

Date: 2006
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Published in European Journal of Development Research, 2006, 18 (4), pp.642-661. ⟨10.1080/09578810601070985⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/09578810601070985

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