Structural Changes in the Manufacturing Industry of Transition Economies

Malinka Koparanova

Economic Studies journal, 2007, issue 3, 3-42

Abstract: This paper addresses the pattern of structural change in selected transition and developed economies in Europe both from the point of view of a national economy and from cross-country perspective as well. It uses cross-industry country data at 2 and 3-digit level of the NACE classification to examine structural changes in the manufacturing industry in the second half of the 90’s. To asses the structural change the paper proposes a decomposition of productive efficiency into macroeconomic, or pro-cyclical component and “structural effect” component, based on two-error component model of unobservable effects. Estimation results from panel data models provided empirical evidence for a heterogeneous development pattern with dominating macroeconomic factors in many transition economies and prevailing structural factors in a few countries.

JEL-codes: L60 P20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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