The Neglected Importance of OPT in CEECs’ Foreign Trade

Julie Pellegrin
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Julie Pellegrin: UNU/INTECH

Chapter 2 in The Political Economy of Competitiveness in an Enlarged Europe, 2001, pp 26-59 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Outward processing traffic (OPT) is an important feature characterising patterns of East–West economic interdependence. Indeed, OPT may prove relevant, if not decisive, in influencing the terms under which such interdependence develops. Notwithstanding this, the now vast literature on CEECs’ trade (and production) specialisation is characterised by a sustained neglect of OPT developments. A succinct literature on OPT does exist, but its findings are rarely taken into account in ‘mainstream’ trade analyses. Nor does the literature actually bother to refer to the latter. As a result, very little connection is established between the development of OPT and CEECs’ trade performance. In addition, OPT studies are often biased by the negative approach adopted so that when the impact OPT may have on the development of East–West economic interdependence is explored, it is almost always concluded that the measure brings with it only adverse consequences.

Keywords: Czech Republic; Comparative Advantage; Foreign Trade; Trade Performance; Intra Industry Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230236783_2

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