Are OECD Export Specialisation Patterns 'Sticky'? Relations to the Convergence-Divergence Debate
Bent Dalum and
Gert Villumsen
No 96-3, DRUID Working Papers from DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies
Abstract:
The aim of the present paper is twofold. We want to present and test a methodology capable to deal more satisfactorily with the question of stability of international export specialisation patterns and, secondly, we want to relate this issue to the convergence-divergence debate in growth theory and the rapidly increasing strand of literature on national systems of innovation.We conclude that the relative export structures are moving together in the long term. However, the speed of convergence is fairly slow, indicating that national export specialisation patterns are quite stubborn or 'sticky'. These findings are complementary to the new knowledge generated wit convergence-divergence debate in growth theory and the rapidly increasing strand of literature on natonal systems of innovation.
Keywords: Specialisation; International Trade Patterns; Growth and Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 O33 O57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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