TDoes Product Differentiation Explain The Increase in Exports of Transition Countries?

Yener Kandogan ()

William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series from William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Abstract: The paper analyzes the increase in transition countries’ exports to their non-traditional trade partners. It uses four different measures of product differentiation to find out the extent that the increase in product variety explains this phenomenon. It is found that opening up to new trade partners first increases the number of sectors in which trade occurs. This is followed by a brief period of specialization in some select sectors, and finally an increase in the number of varieties of products in these sectors. Lastly, the increase in product variety in CEEC has been much more substantial than in CIS.

Keywords: Product Variety; Eastern Europe; Commonwealth of Independent States (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 F15 P33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2003-07-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cis, nep-cwa and nep-tra
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