Product Variety and Economic Growth - Empirical Evidence for the OECD Countries

Michael Funke and Ralf Ruhwedel ()

No 250, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: Utilizing panel data for 19 OECD countries we find suppor t for the hypothesis that a greater degree of product variety relative to the US helps to explain relative per capita GDP levels. The empirical work relies upon some direct measures of product variety calculated from 6-digit OECD export and import data. A lthough the issue is still far from being settled, the merging conclusion is that the index of relative product variety across countries is significantly correlated with relative per capita income levels.

Keywords: Product variety; economic growth; panel data; OECD countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 F41 F43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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Journal Article: Product Variety and Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence for the OECD Countries (2001)
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